Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

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Flog :: Flog (v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
Gold-beaten :: Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.
Chalybeate :: Chalybeate (n.) Any water, liquid, or medicine, into which iron enters as an ingredient..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
Browbeat :: Browbeat (imp.) of Browbea.
Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..
Double-beat Valve :: Double-beat valve () See under Valve.
Clapcake :: Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
Oryx :: Oryx (n.) A genus of African antelopes which includes the gemsbok, the leucoryx, the bisa antelope (O. beisa), and the beatrix antelope (O. beatrix) of Arabia..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Chalybeate :: Chalybeate (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs..
Battuta :: Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.
Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp..
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..
Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Against :: Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof..
Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
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