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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
beater
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wife
▪ Kurt was a Bible-college student and a wife beater.
world
▪ But Schuey was in top form and the triple world beater always looked odds-on to score his fifth win on the trot.
▪ Company men, like former world champion racing driver Jackie Stewart believe it's a world beater.
▪ A world beater in his own right at three years old.
▪ Nirvana's second album is a world beater.
▪ He wants a world beater in his side so how about Nigel Mansell as a driving force in his next squad.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a rug beater
▪ Using clean beaters, whip the cream.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An ordinary beater got five shillings.
▪ If any of the beaters did incur his wrath, they were sent home.
▪ It's a fruitful relationship that's proving a recession beater.
▪ Put in bowl and mash with masher or electric beater on low speed.
▪ The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident.
▪ The beaters of my Kenwood have seldom been still since the end of November.
▪ The two boys then spent the rest of the day helping beaters send up birds for the guns.
▪ When parties went out grouse shooting, whisky was always taken for the beaters, keepers and loaders.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beater

Beater \Beat"er\ (b[=e]t"[~e]r), n.

  1. One who, or that which, beats.

  2. A person who beats up game for the hunters.
    --Black.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beater

mid-14c., "an implement for beating;" mid-15c., "a person who punishes" (c.1200 as a surname); agent noun from beat (v.). Of various mechanical devices that "beat" in some sense from early 17c. Meaning "one who rouses game" is from 1825. Slang meaning "old car" is from c.1980.

Wiktionary
beater

Etymology 1 n. 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 (context US informal English) An automobile in poor operating condition. Etymology 2

n. (context US informal English) A sleeveless undershirt.

WordNet
beater
  1. n. a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter

  2. an implement for beating

Wikipedia
Beater

__NOTOC__ Beater may refer to:

Beater (weaving)

A beater is a weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. In small hand weaving such as Inkle weaving and tablet weaving the beater may be combined with the shuttle into a single tool. In rigid heddle looms the beater is combined with the heddles. Beaters appear both in a hand-held form, and as an integral part of a loom.

Hand beaters must have enough mass to force the weaving into place, so they come in a variety of weights and sizes. Some may have lead inserts to provide additional heft for a smaller beater, and some are made entirely from metal.

Loom beaters typically take the form of a bar mounted across the loom. The actual beating is done by a metal insert known as a reed, which contains a number of slots, known as dents, which the warp threads pass through. This is the more common form, as floor looms and mechanized looms both use a beater with a reed.

Usage examples of "beater".

He was about to go after a Beater when the wizard who had dropped his bat before maneuvered his broom so that he could use the twigs to hit a Bludger at Neil, who was oblivious.

Finally, the wife, stung by words whose bitterness was embittered by their truth, cried aloud, taking the bystanders to witness, that the husband for whose sake, she said, she had endured patiently the falsehoods and accusations of yonder hussy, was nothing better than a beater, a striker, a kicker, a trampler, and a cuffer of his wife.

Jean-Claude was flying on the tail of a Green Beater for some reason, and Neil was flying in circles near the Red goal.

The Beater who had dropped his bat earlier was scowling at Harry and started flying straight at him.

Scowling at the Beater, Harry looked down at the ground where the dropped bat lay.

However, the reason for this, a Bludger that had been hurtling directly toward him, was quickly handled by a Romanian Beater hitting the Bludger very hard at a French Chaser.

It swung a batter beater, knocking loose a flurry of the seemingly white-eyed creatures.

Irish Beater Quigley swung heavily at a passing Bludger, and hit it as hard as possible toward Krum, who did not duck quickly enough.

Bagman than for Crouch, perhaps because of his fame as a Beater, or simply because he looked so much more likable.

I pull on socks and lace up my beater running shoes, probably the cause of the funky knees, and vow to go buy new shoes tomorrow.

I chop a pound of white linen into small pieces, fill the beater with water, and start it rending and tearing up the linen into a fine white pulp.

The longer it stays in the beater, the finer and more bone-like it will be.

By the time the story traveled around, I was a wife beater, and the bread was a bottle of wine, or some such thing like that.

He clubbed a beater with the weighted butt of a short spear, knocked him out briefly.

The beater clattered, sending flecks of white spraying across the countertop.