Beat

1. p. p. of Beat
2. imp. of Beat
3. v. t. To punish by blows; to thrash.
4. v. t. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
5. v. t. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
6. v. t. To tread, as a path.
7. v. t. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
8. v. t. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; — often with out.
9. v. t. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
10. v. t. To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
11. 1p. p. 1 of Beat
12. 1imp. 1 of Beat

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.