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Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

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

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..

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..

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

Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

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

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

Beating :: Beating (n.) The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

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..

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

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..

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

Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart..

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.

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..

Knocking :: Knocking (n.) A beating; a rap; a series of raps.

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..

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

Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..

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