Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..

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Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
Bethump :: Bethump (v. t.) To beat or thump soundly.
Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum..
Beaten :: Beaten () of Bea.
Stamp :: Stamp (v. i.) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward..
Churn :: Churn (v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter..
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
Cudgel :: Cudgel (v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..
Noctograph :: Noctograph (n.) An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.
Paw :: Paw (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..
Transverberate :: Transverberate (v. t.) To beat or strike through.
Beat :: Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..
Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge..
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