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The beater of a fulling mill. Knight.

To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts vii. 59.

or passage. He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold. Spenser. Honor travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast. Shak.

To dash down; to beat. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

To beat or chastise with a strap.

To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.

A throb or beat, as of the heart. Tennyson.

To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.

To beat; to cudgel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap.

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.

To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch.

two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.

or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.

The stroke in beating time.

The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.

ongue tang arguments of state. Shak. To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.

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. The Devil's tattoo. See under Devil.

To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.