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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.

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

To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.

A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

The act of beating or whipping. [Obs.]

The act of verberating; a beating or striking. Arbuthnot.

A blow or beating; a whap. [Prov. Eng.]

The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.]

A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc. Boyle.