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

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..

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..

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.

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..

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

Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..

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..

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

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

Rammer :: Rammer (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

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

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

Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat..

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

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

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

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

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

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