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

Beating :: Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Apitpat :: Apitpat (adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..

Flagellation :: Flagellation (n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.

Palpitation :: Palpitation (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease..

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..

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.

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..

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..

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

Excerebration :: Excerebration (n.) The act of removing or beating out the brains.

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

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

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