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Swinglebar :: Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..

Flog :: Flog (v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..

Palpitate :: Palpitate (v. i.) To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..

Bemaul :: Bemaul (v. t.) To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..

Unbeat :: Unbeat (v. t.) To deliver from the form or nature of a beast.

Mill :: Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.

Swinge :: Swinge (v. t.) To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish.

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

Stamp :: Stamp (v. i.) To strike; to beat; to crush.

Recussion :: Recussion (n.) The act of beating or striking back.

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species)..

Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..

Wap :: Wap (v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.

Squash :: Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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