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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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Battuta :: Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.

Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..

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..

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

Browbeating :: Browbeating (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions..

Batlet :: Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff..

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..

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..

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..

Tick :: Tick (v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat..

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