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Slang

thorough bashing; thorough flaming

white-bellied woodpecker (Dryocopus javensis)

pillow fight

beating (in papermaking); refining

click beetle; skipjack (beetle of family Elateridae)

ringing one's chopsticks against a dish (in order to request seconds, etc.) (a breach of etiquette)

Computing

hitting the hardware directly

kowtow

traditional Japanese fire extinguisher (bamboo pole with a clump of rope attached at the end)

tool used to extract combusted tobacco from a kiseru pipe

knocking snow off (one's clogs, etc.)

Word usually written using kana alone

Ornebius kanetataki (species of scaled crickets)

ringing a bell; bell ringer

bell hammer

to say nasty things (about); to use abusive language

to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)

to knock down; to utterly defeat

to backbite

Idiomatic expression

to encourage to do (something); to urge a person on; to demand action

to spank; to give a spanking; to hit someone on the bottom; to beat someone's backside

to tear down; to shatter

to beat; to batter; to pummel

to chatter pointlessly; to waste one's breath

to strike each other; to come to blows; to fight

to say (useless things, facetious remarks, etc.) to each other

to beat back into shape

to correct (a bad habit, character trait, etc.) by discipline; to straighten (someone) out

to beat down prices; to strike a hard bargain

to knock at the gate

to request an apprenticeship; to ask to be made a pupil