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

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

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

Rivet :: Rivet (v. t.) To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head..

Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Drumming :: Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides..

Saltation :: Saltation (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery..

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..

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

Eccoriate :: Eccoriate (v. t.) To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances..

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

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

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..

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..

Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge..

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

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

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

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

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..

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