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Thresher :: Thresher (n.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

Benison :: Benison (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

Rebuff :: Rebuff (v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously..

Jar :: Jar (v. t.) To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

Loo :: Loo (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..

Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To beat with wings, or as with wings..

Pulse :: Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement..

Labor :: Labor (v. t.) To belabor; to beat.

Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap..

Ply :: Ply (v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.

Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..

Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector.

Sphygmometer :: Sphygmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.

Whop :: Whop (v. t.) To beat or strike.

Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer..

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