beater

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːtə(r)

Etymology 1

beat +‎ -er

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

1. Someone or something that beats.
2. A kitchen implement for mixing.
3. A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
4. A man who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, often working in a group.
5. A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
6. (US, informal) An automobile in poor operating condition.

Derived terms

• eggbeater
• world-beater

Synonyms

• (stick for a percussion instrument): drum stick

Translations

a kitchen implement for mixing

• Chinese: 攪拌器, 搅拌器 (jiǎo bàn qì)
• Dutch: klopper m
• Finnish: vispilä (fi)

• German: Schneebesen (de) m, Quirl (de) m
• Russian: взбивалка (ru) (vzbiválka) f

stick to play a percussion instrument

• Dutch: trommelstok

• French: baguette de tambour

in a hunting party, the group of men used to drive game towards the shooters

• Dutch: drijver m
• German: Treiber (de) m

• Polish: naganiacz (pl)
• Russian: загонщик (ru) (zagónš'ik) m

papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength

an automobile in poor operating condition

• Dutch: wrak (nl) n
• French: bazou (fr)

• Russian: развалюха (ru) (razval'úχa) f

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Translations to be checked

• French: batteur m
• Italian: frullatore m (1), battitore m
• Japanese: ビーター (biitā)
• Portuguese: batedor m
• Spanish: batidor m

Etymology 2

By shortening from wife beater.

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

1. (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.

Translations

A sleeveless undershirt

Anagrams

• berate
• betear
• rebate