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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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..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..
Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..
Flagellation :: Flagellation (n.) A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..
Contusion :: Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised..
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..
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..
Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing..
Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge..
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..
Vapulation :: Vapulation (n.) The act of beating or whipping.
Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..
Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..
Shoder :: Shoder (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.
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