To beat out (metal); ? to inlay. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To work metal or other malleable material by frequent striking; to hammer. To shape by beating, to forge, to flatten or expand…

transitive. Originally: to beat thin with a hammer, to hammer out; to strike with the peen of a hammer. Now also: to subject (a surface) to the…

literal. To beat out, as metal, with a hammer; to shape with blows of a hammer.

transitive. To beat with a hammer; spec. to beat (metal) thin or flat.

To draw out to thinness; to beat (metal) into thin plates. Obsolete.

transitive. technical. To force back the end of (a metal bar, etc.) by hammering or beating, esp. when heated.

transitive. To flatten (sheet metal, a metal object, etc.) with a smooth-faced hammer, or by rubbing a flat-ended tool over the surface; to reduce…

To beat down to a shape.

transitive. To beat (metal) to a leaf or foil.

In various spec. uses. transitive. To give (metal) a rounded form or domed shape.

transitive. To beat out into a skelp.

transitive. To forge or work with a tilt-hammer.

Iron-forging. To flatten, ‘upset’, or shorten and thicken the end of a rail or bar by endwise blows. Also transferred.

transitive. To hammer (iron, etc.) when cold.

To reduce to a stub or stump. To shorten and thicken by hammering.

Metallurgy. = upset, v. 1c.

transitive. Chiefly U.S. To hammer or beat (the surface of a piece of metal) in order to shape or smooth it; esp. to remove dents or imperfections…

transferred. To shape or alter the physical properties of (metal) by the application of heavy pressure.