Definition of beating

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Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

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Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
Saltation :: Saltation (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery..
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Pulse :: Pulse (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries..
Flagellation :: Flagellation (n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..
Tum-tum :: Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Tick :: Tick (v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..
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..
Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..
Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..
Pulverize :: Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued..
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..
Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
Knocking :: Knocking (n.) A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..
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