Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison..

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Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub..
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.
Ranger :: Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..
Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Surbedded :: Surbeat (v. t.) Same as Surbate.
Stock :: Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Beat :: Beat (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..
Loo :: Loo (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
Mazurka :: Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch..
Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
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