Beating

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Beat
2. n. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
3. n. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
4. n. Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n.

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.