beater

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat +‎ -er.

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

  1. Someone or something that beats.
    • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 94:
      His batwings were somehow more frightening for being the pathetic broken floundering things they were than if they had been strong, muscular beaters of the air.
  2. A kitchen implement for mixing.
  3. A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
    Synonym: drum stick
  4. A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
    • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 14, in Burmese Days‎[1]:
      The beaters halted in a group to watch, and some of them could not refrain from clicking their tongues; they thought it queer and rather shocking to see a woman handle a gun.
    • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 158:
      "Our beaters are doing a marvellous job, just listen to them, will you?"
  5. A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
  6. (US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
    Synonyms: banger, bucket, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket; see also Thesaurus:old car
    • 2020 July 14, Ron Stodghill, “Black Behind the Wheel”, in New York Times‎[2]:
      Packed merrily into my friends’ beater, an old Ford Pinto, we headed into Jennings, a mostly Black North St. Louis County community heavily patrolled by white officers, to pick up one more college friend.
  7. A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
  8. (Canada) A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
  9. In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
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Etymology 2

By shortening from wifebeater.

Noun

beater (plural beaters)

  1. (US, informal) A sleeveless undershirt.
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