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Shoder :: Shoder (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.

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

Tact :: Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

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..

Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..

Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc..

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

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

Washerwoman :: Washerwoman (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants.

Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..

Verberation :: Verberation (n.) The act of verberating; a beating or striking.

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.

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..

Sound :: Sound (superl.) heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating..

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

Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..

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..

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