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n instrument for driving anything force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance. The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud. Milton.

The act of beating or striking back.

d, 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.

or 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. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak. Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or…

of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.

The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery.

An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crabeating seal.

To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.

Augury; prognostication. [Obs.] The soothe of birds by beating of their wings. Spenser.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.

To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

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.