beat the wing

== English == === Verb === beat the wing (third-person singular simple present beats the wing, present participle beating the wing, simple past beat the wing, past participle beaten the wing or (colloquial) beat the wing) (dated) To flutter or flap; to move with fluttering agitation, or to rush. === References === “beat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.