What is "beatin'"

Usage examples of "beatin'".

So when I's in the field one day, he tuck and whipped me--I didn't call it whippin'--I called it beatin'.

When I got so I could talk, mass'r ax me why I never told him what a beatin' old Simms done give me.

Then he axed me 'bout that beatin' right afore him, and I told it to his face.

Then those that were able would creep out over the low threshold, and perhaps fall asleep on the hot ground, "Many's the time," says Vina, "I come home and find my baby sleepin' with the sun a beatin' on its head, enough, 'peared like, to addle its brains.

Mass'r was a sittin' by, but I never stopped for him--I told her the whole story, and all about the beatin' too.

Not now, when the strike's on, but some time later I'm goin' to get you an' give you the beatin' of your life.

You see, I never said nothin', but I've been suspicious all the time after that beatin' the Chicago Terror gave me.

What was my muscles good for with no head to run 'em,--sluggin' scabs, beatin' up lodgers, an' crookin' the elbow over a bar.

He must be terrible stirred up by them beatin's he got down on the Ohio, an' they say that Mohawk, Thayendanegea is a whoppin' big chief, too.

Gives me a mighty snug feelin', though, like the one you have when you're safe in a big log house, an' the wind an' the hail an' the snow are beatin' outside.

Seems like I jus' been beatin' my brains to death for a hell of a long time.