to hit (a target); to strike

to defeat; to beat

to knock down; knocked down

to shoot down (a plane)

to kill; to shoot dead

to clap one's hands; to clap each other's hands; high five

to attack and sink (a ship)

to bat; to hit a ball (sport)

to beat; to lash

to defeat; to smash; to rout

to beat back; to repel

to attack and destroy

to smash to pieces

fencing (sport)

to stab; to hack

to shoot down

to stun; to render unconscious (with a blow)

to attack and kill

to beat time with a percussion instrument made of pottery

hammered string type (of musical instrument)

(baseball, cricket etc) batter

beat the drum, pass the flower (game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten – when the drumbeat stops, the player holding the flower must sing a song, answer a question, or drink a glass of wine etc)

to beat the drum and sound the gong (idiom); fig. to order an advance or retreat; to egg people on or to call them back

hammered string musical instrument