to beat up for recruits, or for volunteers

We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground.

make a blind all along the bottom of the ditch of the Envelope

2007 April 22, //www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/world/africa/22iht-somalia.4.5393615.html Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee, in The New York Times