stick with which to beat (someone)

:  a woody piece or part of a tree or shrub: such as

:  a usually dry or dead severed shoot, twig, or slender branch

:  a cut or broken branch or piece of wood gathered for fuel or construction material

:  to hit or propel (something, such as a hockey puck) with a stick

:  to pierce with something pointed :  stab

:  to kill by piercing

:  to push or thrust so as or as if to pierce

:  a thrust with a pointed instrument :  stab

:  delay, stop

:  impediment

:  to strike repeatedly:

:  to hit repeatedly so as to inflict pain

:  to walk on :  tread

:  a single stroke or blow especially in a series

:  pulsation, tick

:  a sound produced by or as if by beating (see ¹beat)

:  being in a state of exhaustion :  exhausted

:  sapped of resolution or morale

:  of, relating to, or being beatniks

:  beatnik

:  some person :  somebody