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Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

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..

Wap :: Wap (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc..

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.

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

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..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms..

Pounding :: Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Beating :: Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.

Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat..

Batlet :: Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff..

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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