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Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.

Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..

Pulse :: Pulse (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries..

Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..

Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.

Vapulation :: Vapulation (n.) The act of beating or whipping.

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

Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..

Mauling :: Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist..

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..

Tact :: Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.

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..

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..

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

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

Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..

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

Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty..

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

Sound :: Sound (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating..

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