Beater

Quick meaning: Beater is a noun meaning Someone or something that beats.

Meaning

Someone or something that beats.

More Meanings

1. A kitchen implement for mixing.
2. (music) A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
3. A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
4. A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
5. (US, informal) An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
6. (weaving) 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.
7. In the sport Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player a who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.

Example Sentences

"Our beaters are doing a marvellous job, just listen to them, will you?"

5 low-key footwear brands making the trusty summer beater feel exciting again.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• beaters

Synonyms for beater

Depending on context, synonyms include banger, bucket, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include baton, scrap, junkyard, crate, junk, bodywork.

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