percuss

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To strike; to hit; to knock; to deliver a blow to.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To impact.
  3. Verb.  (transitive, chiefly) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of something by tapping on (an overlying surface).
  4. Verb.  (transitive, chiefly) To attempt to divine the location or other quality of (something) by tapping on an overlying surface.

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