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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Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.
Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..
Excerebration :: Excerebration (n.) The act of removing or beating out the brains.
Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..
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.
Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..
Mauling :: Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist..
Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..
Verberation :: Verberation (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking.
Vapulation :: Vapulation (n.) The act of beating or whipping.
Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument..
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..
Pulsative :: Pulsative (a.) Beating; throbbing.
Wap :: Wap (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..
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..
Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..
Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
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