the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something flat > so as to flatten or smooth (2)
To slap or strike with a flat surface, so as to smooth or flatten; to pat. So to clap out. Chiefly northern.
transitive. To strike (something) lightly with the hand or a flat surface, so as to flatten, smooth, shape, or rearrange; to flatten down in such…