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Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc..

Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.

Plangency :: Plangency (n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.

Trounce :: Trounce (v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

Whaler :: Whaler (n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size..

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..

Contusion :: Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised..

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.

Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.

Stone :: Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones..

Gold-beating :: Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer..

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..

Thump :: Thump (v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound..

Lambaste :: Lambaste (v. t.) To beat severely.

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..

Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..

Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

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