beatingn.

Brit.

/ˈbiːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbidɪŋ/

Etymology: < beat v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

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.In quot. c1440: an instrument used for beating; a scourge.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun]

beating?c1225

quassation?a1425

bunchingc1440

tunsionc1440

hammering1563

pealing1582

flapping1629

pulsation1656

dousing1721

pummelling1755

pommelling1788

dunching1789

walloping1837

whacking1862

shit-kicking1954

beat-down1989

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating

swingingc1200

beating?c1225

chastising1303

correctionc1386

lashingc1400

scouring1426

Moses' law1482

jerking1552

whipping1566

yarking1573

feaking1600

correct1606

tawing1620

lacing1622

castigation1640

basking1642

verberation1661

strappado1668

the lash1694

flogging1758

whopping1812

quilting1822

blistering1842

whaling1852

nailing1895

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing

beating?c1225

jasch1513

wash1579

plash breach1582

breacha1616

breaking1647

plunge1781

jow1820

the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > flutter (of wings)

flapping1398

beatingc1440

flap1774

wafture1795

flaff1827

the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > process of thinking

i-thankc1000

thoughtOE

cogitation?c1225

thinkinga1382

imaginationa1393

pansing?a1505

beating1606

brainwork1606

brain labour1638

headwork1642

thought process1850

thought-action1860

thought-production1881

nutting1951

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > [noun]

taboringa1400

drumming1541

battery1591

tucking1632

beating1656

stickwork1786

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 270 Seið ysaie..ure beatunge feol on him.

c1374 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1034 Betynge of the see.. ayen the roches holowe.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 34 Betynge [1499 instrument], instrumentum, verberaculum.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lv. l. 297 He herd Abowtes hym A wondir thinge: betyng Of Bryddes Wynges In fere.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMii Remembre his scourgynges, buffettes and beatynges.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 5 b Darius..bestowed much beating..in his troubled pate.

1656 H. More Antidote Atheism ii. iii. 82 The couragious beating of the Drum.

1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 460 The restless beating of the barren, bitter sea.

1879 Photogr. in Cassell's Techn. Educator 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. to beat up 6 at beat v.¹ Phrasal verbs), etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition

subversiona1382

razinga1400

racing?a1450

beating down1530

rasing1552

demolishing1560

plucking1560

demolitiona1572

downpulling1581

demolishment1602

slighting1640

wreck1711

wrecking1775

wreckage1837

train-wrecking1872

unbuilding1879

demo1945

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling

repulsionc1460

repulsing1490

repulse1578

repelling1611

staving1633

repellance1798

beating off1803

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person

threshingOE

sousingc1580

rib-roast1595

basting1599

swingeing1603

cuffing1610

lamming1611

rib-roasting1613

mauling1621

pinking1637

drubbing1650

diverberation1651

verberation1661

trimming1675

rib1699

thrashing1720

dousing1721

fagging1746

bumping1751

dusting1799

clapperclawing1806

milling1806

hiding1809

punishment1811

doing1814

bethumping1831

mugging1846

jacketing1850

frailing1851

pasting1851

towelling1851

tanning1863

fum-fum1885

ribbing1894

paddywhack1898

tanking1905

beating-up1915

shellacking1931

sloshing1931

clobbering1948

twatting1963

duffing-up1967

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 198/1 Beatyng downe of any buyldynge, demolition.

1803 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 227 This beating off the Tunisians will have a very good effect.

1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. vii. 287 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.

1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 70 If they began with a beating-up, their next attempt was likely to be drastic.

1947 Penguin New Writing 30 127 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > other processes

ripping1463

intinction1559

sweat1573

inceration1612

rasion1617

lixiviation1664

scribing1679

beating1687

bushing1794

refinishing1842

grading1852

conditioning1858

ripening1860

scutching1861

retreatment1867

chamber process1869

installation1882

tanking1891

fobbing1898

steam curing1907

sieve analysis1928

mulling1931

linishing1945

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes

limation1617

matting1688

sheeting1776

blooming1812

steeling1816

ungraining1839

tarnishing1858

ironing1868

shimming1872

beating1875

siliconizing1880

shearing1881

inoxidizing1883

rustproofing1892

picking1895

rifting1903

Bayer process1910

autofrettage1919

prefinishing1935

panel beating1953

splatting1976

1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 80 A fortnight's beating of hemp.

1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 525 After the form has been lately washed..the letter will not take the ink without several beatings.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun]

fallOE

confusionc1290

discomfiturea1400

castc1400

overthrowc1440

confoundinga1450

jeofail1546

prostitution1567

lurch1584

worsting1607

unhorsing1608

supplantation1617

defeat1676

overset1789

punishment1811

overthrowal1862

beating1883

unhorsement1884

whoop-ass1974

1883 American 6 245 Our American rifle-team has had its beating, but not a bad beating.

4. Nautical. Sailing against the wind.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind

busking1705

thrash1866

thresh1868

beating1883

1883 Contemp. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > [noun]

throbbing1573

beatinga1616

pulse1657

pulsation1658

flaffing1828

flackering1855

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > slicing off turf

beatinga1616

velling1674

underfooting1942

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 93 The beating of so strong a passion, As loue doth giue my heart.

1798 R. Southey St. Patrick's Purgatory xxiii In short quick beatings toil'd his heart.

1801 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 442 Whether she really heard the beating of the watch.

1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ii. 42 Beating of the heart..is the result of the striking of the apex of the heart against the pericardium.

Compounds

beating blade n.

ΚΠ

1890 J. Nasmith Mod. Cotton Spinning Machinery 30 The cotton, which, as it is impelled by the stroke of the beating blade, will very readily roll past the projections.

beating-board n.

ΚΠ

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 Then they bring it [sc. potter's clay] to their beating board, where with a long Spatula they beat it till it be well mix't.

beating-dog n. a dog trained to put up game.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that starts or indicates prey

retriever1486

setting dog1611

beating-dog1669

setter1678

starter1766

finder1805

reporter1895

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 248 You may go into the Fens, Marshes, or places with a Spaniel, or other Beating-dog.

beating-engine n. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping

beater1825

beating-engine1825

rag engine1825

stuff engine1839

poacher1866

poaching engine1870

breaking-enginea1877

Hollander1878

breaker1880

kollergang1890

pulp stone1892

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 368 [Paper manufacture] The beating-engines..are seldom provided with these waste-pipes.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 21 The rags are..conveyed to the washing-engine,..then let off into the beating-engine.

1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 61 Alum intended for the beating-engine should be perfectly pure.

beating frame n. (see quot. 1915).

ΚΠ

1915 R. Beaumont Woollen & Worsted 631 ‘Beating’..is done on the beating frame, consisting of a roller, round which the piece is wrapped face downwards.

beating-net n. a kind of fishing-net.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets

Peter netc1280

flue1388

wade1388

stalker1389

shove-net1418

trod-net1523

butt1533

web1533

fagnet1558

seur1558

trimnet1558

trollnet1558

pot-net1584

treat net1584

weir-net1585

hagan1630

henbilt1630

rugnet1630

basket-net1652

landing-net1653

stream-net1662

wolf1725

ram's horn1792

gill net1795

wolf-net1819

trap-net1856

forewheel1861

stow-net1871

lave net1875

kettle-bail1881

beating-net1883

keeve-net1883

net basin1883

wing-neta1884

trap-seine1891

lead-net1910

ghost net1959

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 125 Beating net..used by fishermen in the freshwater..It is a trammel or armoured net.

beating-order n. a certificate given to a recruiting sergeant.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > specific certificates

pass1617

beating-order1721

smart ticket1734

papers1872

1721 London Gaz. No. 5947/4 Has a Beating-Order about him, was lately a Serjeant and employed in Recruiting.

† beating-stock n. Obsolete a jocular title given to one who is subjected to beating.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who is beaten

beating-stock1552

flogging-block1827

floggee1836

beatee1860

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Beatynge stocke, subiculum flagri.

Draft additions January 2010

to take a beating: to be the victim of a (punitive) physical attack; to sustain damage, harm, or punishment (literal and figurative). Also: to suffer a setback or defeat.In figurative use, often hyperbolical and colloquial.

ΚΠ

1667 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire iii. vi. 17 These [sc. the Spahees] are more tame, and subject to the Cudgel, and can take a beating patiently on the soles of the feet, which is their punishment.

a1774 O. Goldsmith Epil. for Mrs. Bulkely in Misc. Wks. (1812) II. 88 The Mohawk too..Goes out, affronts his man, and takes a beating.

1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 317 As for the blood-spilling,..a fine young man will do such things, when a blackguard, brought up to carry books under his arm and go to meetings with old ladies, will take a beating and sue for damages.

1958 Life 19 May 1/1 (advt.) Whether your hair takes a beating ninety feet under water or under your morning shower, you need Vitalis.

1982 Daily Tel. 30 Dec. 15/4 The dollar is due to take a beating on foreign exchanges next year.

2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 16 Apr. 34/2 As blue team forces continued to take a beating, Van Riper was told that he had to play by the rules—and that those rules did not include insurgency tactics.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	beating
释义	beatingn. Brit. /ˈbiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbidɪŋ/ Etymology: < beat v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 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.In quot. c1440: an instrument used for beating; a scourge. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] beating?c1225 quassation?a1425 bunchingc1440 tunsionc1440 hammering1563 pealing1582 flapping1629 pulsation1656 dousing1721 pummelling1755 pommelling1788 dunching1789 walloping1837 whacking1862 shit-kicking1954 beat-down1989 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > breaking or dashing beating?c1225 jasch1513 wash1579 plash breach1582 breacha1616 breaking1647 plunge1781 jow1820 the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > flutter (of wings) flapping1398 beatingc1440 flap1774 wafture1795 flaff1827 the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > process of thinking i-thankc1000 thoughtOE cogitation?c1225 thinkinga1382 imaginationa1393 pansing?a1505 beating1606 brainwork1606 brain labour1638 headwork1642 thought process1850 thought-action1860 thought-production1881 nutting1951 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > [noun] taboringa1400 drumming1541 battery1591 tucking1632 beating1656 stickwork1786 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 270 Seið ysaie..ure beatunge feol on him. c1374 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1034 Betynge of the see.. ayen the roches holowe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 34 Betynge [1499 instrument], instrumentum, verberaculum. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lv. l. 297 He herd Abowtes hym A wondir thinge: betyng Of Bryddes Wynges In fere. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMii Remembre his scourgynges, buffettes and beatynges. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 5 b Darius..bestowed much beating..in his troubled pate. 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism ii. iii. 82 The couragious beating of the Drum. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 460 The restless beating of the barren, bitter sea. 1879 Photogr. in Cassell's Techn. Educator 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. to beat up 6 at beat v.¹ Phrasal verbs), etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > demolition subversiona1382 razinga1400 racing?a1450 beating down1530 rasing1552 demolishing1560 plucking1560 demolitiona1572 downpulling1581 demolishment1602 slighting1640 wreck1711 wrecking1775 wreckage1837 train-wrecking1872 unbuilding1879 demo1945 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > repelling repulsionc1460 repulsing1490 repulse1578 repelling1611 staving1633 repellance1798 beating off1803 the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person threshingOE sousingc1580 rib-roast1595 basting1599 swingeing1603 cuffing1610 lamming1611 rib-roasting1613 mauling1621 pinking1637 drubbing1650 diverberation1651 verberation1661 trimming1675 rib1699 thrashing1720 dousing1721 fagging1746 bumping1751 dusting1799 clapperclawing1806 milling1806 hiding1809 punishment1811 doing1814 bethumping1831 mugging1846 jacketing1850 frailing1851 pasting1851 towelling1851 tanning1863 fum-fum1885 ribbing1894 paddywhack1898 tanking1905 beating-up1915 shellacking1931 sloshing1931 clobbering1948 twatting1963 duffing-up1967 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 198/1 Beatyng downe of any buyldynge, demolition. 1803 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 227 This beating off the Tunisians will have a very good effect. 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. vii. 287 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. 1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 70 If they began with a beating-up, their next attempt was likely to be drastic. 1947 Penguin New Writing 30 127 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > other processes ripping1463 intinction1559 sweat1573 inceration1612 rasion1617 lixiviation1664 scribing1679 beating1687 bushing1794 refinishing1842 grading1852 conditioning1858 ripening1860 scutching1861 retreatment1867 chamber process1869 installation1882 tanking1891 fobbing1898 steam curing1907 sieve analysis1928 mulling1931 linishing1945 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other metalworking processes limation1617 matting1688 sheeting1776 blooming1812 steeling1816 ungraining1839 tarnishing1858 ironing1868 shimming1872 beating1875 siliconizing1880 shearing1881 inoxidizing1883 rustproofing1892 picking1895 rifting1903 Bayer process1910 autofrettage1919 prefinishing1935 panel beating1953 splatting1976 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 80 A fortnight's beating of hemp. 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 525 After the form has been lately washed..the letter will not take the ink without several beatings. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] fallOE confusionc1290 discomfiturea1400 castc1400 overthrowc1440 confoundinga1450 jeofail1546 prostitution1567 lurch1584 worsting1607 unhorsing1608 supplantation1617 defeat1676 overset1789 punishment1811 overthrowal1862 beating1883 unhorsement1884 whoop-ass1974 1883 American 6 245 Our American rifle-team has had its beating, but not a bad beating. 4. Nautical. Sailing against the wind. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind busking1705 thrash1866 thresh1868 beating1883 1883 Contemp. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > [noun] throbbing1573 beatinga1616 pulse1657 pulsation1658 flaffing1828 flackering1855 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > slicing off turf beatinga1616 velling1674 underfooting1942 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. iv. 93 The beating of so strong a passion, As loue doth giue my heart. View more context for this quotation 1798 R. Southey St. Patrick's Purgatory xxiii In short quick beatings toil'd his heart. 1801 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 442 Whether she really heard the beating of the watch. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ii. 42 Beating of the heart..is the result of the striking of the apex of the heart against the pericardium. Compounds beating blade n. ΚΠ 1890 J. Nasmith Mod. Cotton Spinning Machinery 30 The cotton, which, as it is impelled by the stroke of the beating blade, will very readily roll past the projections. beating-board n. ΚΠ 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 123 Then they bring it [sc. potter's clay] to their beating board, where with a long Spatula they beat it till it be well mix't. beating-dog n. a dog trained to put up game. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > sporting or hunting dog > that starts or indicates prey retriever1486 setting dog1611 beating-dog1669 setter1678 starter1766 finder1805 reporter1895 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 248 You may go into the Fens, Marshes, or places with a Spaniel, or other Beating-dog. beating-engine n. 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > for pulping beater1825 beating-engine1825 rag engine1825 stuff engine1839 poacher1866 poaching engine1870 breaking-enginea1877 Hollander1878 breaker1880 kollergang1890 pulp stone1892 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 368 [Paper manufacture] The beating-engines..are seldom provided with these waste-pipes. 1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 21 The rags are..conveyed to the washing-engine,..then let off into the beating-engine. 1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 61 Alum intended for the beating-engine should be perfectly pure. beating frame n. (see quot. 1915). ΚΠ 1915 R. Beaumont Woollen & Worsted 631 ‘Beating’..is done on the beating frame, consisting of a roller, round which the piece is wrapped face downwards. beating-net n. a kind of fishing-net. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other nets Peter netc1280 flue1388 wade1388 stalker1389 shove-net1418 trod-net1523 butt1533 web1533 fagnet1558 seur1558 trimnet1558 trollnet1558 pot-net1584 treat net1584 weir-net1585 hagan1630 henbilt1630 rugnet1630 basket-net1652 landing-net1653 stream-net1662 wolf1725 ram's horn1792 gill net1795 wolf-net1819 trap-net1856 forewheel1861 stow-net1871 lave net1875 kettle-bail1881 beating-net1883 keeve-net1883 net basin1883 wing-neta1884 trap-seine1891 lead-net1910 ghost net1959 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 125 Beating net..used by fishermen in the freshwater..It is a trammel or armoured net. beating-order n. a certificate given to a recruiting sergeant. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > specific certificates pass1617 beating-order1721 smart ticket1734 papers1872 1721 London Gaz. No. 5947/4 Has a Beating-Order about him, was lately a Serjeant and employed in Recruiting. † beating-stock n. Obsolete a jocular title given to one who is subjected to beating. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who is beaten beating-stock1552 flogging-block1827 floggee1836 beatee1860 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Beatynge stocke, subiculum flagri. Draft additions January 2010 to take a beating: to be the victim of a (punitive) physical attack; to sustain damage, harm, or punishment (literal and figurative). Also: to suffer a setback or defeat.In figurative use, often hyperbolical and colloquial. ΚΠ 1667 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire iii. vi. 17 These [sc. the Spahees] are more tame, and subject to the Cudgel, and can take a beating patiently on the soles of the feet, which is their punishment. a1774 O. Goldsmith Epil. for Mrs. Bulkely in Misc. Wks. (1812) II. 88 The Mohawk too..Goes out, affronts his man, and takes a beating. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 317 As for the blood-spilling,..a fine young man will do such things, when a blackguard, brought up to carry books under his arm and go to meetings with old ladies, will take a beating and sue for damages. 1958 Life 19 May 1/1 (advt.) Whether your hair takes a beating ninety feet under water or under your morning shower, you need Vitalis. 1982 Daily Tel. 30 Dec. 15/4 The dollar is due to take a beating on foreign exchanges next year. 2007 U.S. News & World Rep. 16 Apr. 34/2 As blue team forces continued to take a beating, Van Riper was told that he had to play by the rules—and that those rules did not include insurgency tactics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2020). beatingadj. Etymology: < beat v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbeating. 1. That strikes successive blows. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [adjective] feaking1600 beating1715 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 383 Seiz'd by the beating Wing. 2. Of wind, rain, etc.: That strikes violently, or batters; driving. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > severe or violent (of weather or elements) retheeOE strongOE stithc1100 snella1400 woodc1400 outrage?a1425 violentc1425 sternc1449 strainable1497 rigorous1513 stalwart1528 vehement1528 sore1535 sturdy1569 robustious1632 severe1676 beating1702 shaving1789 snorting1819 wroth1852 wrathy1872 snapping1876 vicious1882 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane iv. i. 1576 To bear the beating Storm That roars around me. 1885 Cornhill Mag. July 74 Chinese hat, suitable in case of beating rain or fierce sun. 3. Palpitating, throbbing. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > [adjective] > palpitating beating1702 palpitating1731 1702 N. Rowe Tamerlane iii. i. 1039 My beating Heart Bounds with exulting motion. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) ii. 42 With weary joints, and with a beating mind. 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xvii. 191 To meet, with beating heart. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems I. 301 The fever and the beating pain. Compounds beating reed n. one which strikes against its seat; in the organ, against the edges of the opening in the tube; cf. striking-reed n. at striking n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1879 W. H. Stone in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 361/1 The clarinet consists essentially of a mouth-piece furnished with a single beating reed [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.?c1225adj.1702
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