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Knocking :: Knocking (n.) A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..

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..

Tum-tum :: Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

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

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..

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

Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

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

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

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

Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing..

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