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▪ I. beating, vbl. n.|ˈbiːtɪŋ|
[f. beat v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The infliction of repeated blows; spec. the action of inflicting blows in punishment; the dashing of waves against the shore; the whipping up of a fluid; the flapping of wings; rousing of game, exercising the brain, etc.
c1230Ancr. R. 366 Seið Isaye..ure beatunge ueol upon him. c1374Chaucer H. Fame 1034 Betynge of the see.. ayen the roches holowe. c1440Lonelich Grail. lv. 297 He herd abowtes hym a wondir thinge: betyng of bryddes wynges in fere. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 114 b, Remember his scourgynges, buffettes & beatynges. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Ivstine 5 b, Darius..bestowed much beating..in his troubled pate. 1656H. More Antid. Ath. ii. iii. 82 The couragious beating of the Drum. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 460 The restless beating of the barren, bitter sea. 1879Photogr. in Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 207 Upon the perfect beating of the albumen the success of the operation mainly depends.
b. with adv., as beating down, beating off, beating-up (cf. beat v.1 40 f.), etc.
1530Palsgr. 198/1 Beatyng downe of any buyldynge, demolition. 1803Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) V. 227 This beating off the Tunisians will have a very good effect. 1915A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. vii. 629 I've a mind to send a couple of the boys round before evening to give him a beating up and see what they can get from him. 1939G. Greene Confid. Agent i. ii. 70 If they began with a beating-up, their next attempt was likely to be drastic. 1947Penguin New Writing XXX. 127 The director seems determined to equal in savagery the beatings-up in The Glass Key.
2. In various technical uses: see beat v.1 24.
1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 80 A fortnight's beating of hemp. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. 525 After the form has been lately washed..the letter will not take the ink without several beatings. 1875Ure Dict. Arts II. 415 As in hand-scutching, the operation consists of two processes: first the bruising of the stems; and secondly, the beating away of the woody parts from the fibre. Ibid. II. 728 Four principal operations constitute the art of gold-beating. 1 The casting of the gold ingots..4 The beating.
3. A defeat in any contest.
1883American VI. 245 Our American rifle-team has had its beating, but not a bad beating.
4. Naut. Sailing against the wind.
1883Contemp. Rev. Aug. 231 Of all the modes of progression invented by man, beating to windward in a sailing vessel is morally the most beautiful.
5. A pulsating or throbbing movement, like that of the heart, of a watch or clock, of two notes not in unison.
1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iv. 97 The beating of so strong a passion As loue doth giue my heart. 1798Southey St. Patrick's Purg. xxiii, In short quick beatings toil'd his heart. 1801Phil. Trans. XCI. 442 Whether she really heard the beating of the watch. 1872Huxley Phys. ii. 42 Beating of the heart..is the result of the striking of the apex of the heart against the pericardium.
6. Comb., as beating-board; beating-dog, a dog trained to put up game; beating-engine, a machine (a) for preparing the materials used in the manufacture of paper, strawboard, millboard, etc.; (b) for opening, beating, and cleaning cotton in cotton-manufacture; beating-net, a kind of fishing-net; beating-order, a certificate given to a recruiting sergeant; † beating-stock, a jocular title given to one who is subjected to beating.
1552Huloet, Beatynge stocke, subiculum flagri. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 248 You may go into the Fens, Marshes, or places with a Spaniel, or other Beating-dog. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 123 Then they bring it [potter's clay] to their beating board, where with a long Spatula they beat it till it be well mix't. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5947/4 Has a Beating-Order about him, was lately a Serjeant and employed in Recruiting. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 368 (Paper-manufacture) The beating-engines..are seldom provided with these waste-pipes. 1846Dodd Brit. Manuf. VI. 21 The rags are..conveyed to the washing-engine,..then let off into the beating-engine. 1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 61 Alum intended for the beating-engine should be perfectly pure. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 125 Beating net..used by fishermen in the freshwater..It is a trammel or armoured net.
▪ II. ˈbeating, ppl. a.
[f. beat v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That strikes successive blows.
1718Pope Iliad ii. 383 Seiz'd by the beating wing.
2. Of wind, rain, etc.: That strikes violently, or batters; driving.
1702Rowe Tamerl. iv. i. 1576 To bear the beating Storm That roars around me. 1885Cornh. Mag. July 74 Chinese hat, suitable in case of beating rain or fierce sun.
3. Palpitating, throbbing.
1702Rowe Tamerl. iii. i. 1039 My beating Heart Bounds with exulting motion. 1805Wordsw. Prel. ii. (1850) 34 Feverish with weary joints and beating minds. 1810Southey Kehama xvii. ix, To meet with beating heart. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 301 The fever and the beating pain. |