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Tick :: Tick (v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

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

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

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

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.

Pulse :: Pulse (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries..

Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..

Forge :: Forge (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.

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

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

Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

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..

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.

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

Swinglebar :: Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand..

Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..

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

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

Palpitation :: Palpitation (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease..

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