Definition of beating

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

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Pulse :: Pulse (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries..
Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..
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..
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..
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..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..
Tact :: Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.
Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..
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..
Trip :: Trip (n.) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward..
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
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.
Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
Apitpat :: Apitpat (adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.
Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..
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..
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.
Browbeating :: Browbeating (n.) The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, supercilious manners, or confident assertions..
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