whipping drum

  • 81beat — {{11}}beat (adj.) defeated, overcome by effort, c.1400; tired, exhausted, by 1905, Amer.Eng., from past tense of BEAT (Cf. beat) (v.). {{12}}beat (n.) c.1300, a beating, whipping; the beating of a drum, from BEAT (Cf. beat) (v.). As throb of the… …

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