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Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..

Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..

Mash :: Mash (n.) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort..

Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..

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

Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..

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..

Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

Pulsation :: Pulsation (n.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse..

Shoder :: Shoder (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

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..

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well..

Plangency :: Plangency (n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.

Verberation :: Verberation (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking.

Browbeating :: Browbeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Browbea.

Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..

Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.

Plangent :: Plangent (a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave..

Forge :: Forge (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

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