叩 - strike, beat, kow tow

(feather) duster

to strike; to hit; to beat; to knock; to pound; to bang; to slap; to spank; to tap; to pat; to clap (one's hands); to play (the drums)

finely chopped fish or meat (sometimes seared first); mince

hitting the hardware directly

kowtow

tool used to extract combusted tobacco from a kiseru pipe

equal split; splitting evenly

to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands)

to begin to strike

to knock down; to knock off

to throw violently against; to slam against; to strike; to slap something onto; to dash (e.g. to the floor)

clumsy carpenter