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BEATER (beater)

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Irregular inflected form: beater  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does beater mean? 

BEATER (noun)
  The noun BEATER has 2 senses:

1. a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunterplay

2. an implement for beatingplay

  Familiarity information: BEATER used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEATER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("beater" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)


Sense 2

Meaning:

An implement for beating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("beater" is a kind of...):

implement (instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beater"):

carpet beater; rug beater (implement for beating dust out of carpets)

eggbeater; eggwhisk (a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream)

Derivation:

beat (hit repeatedly)

beat (stir vigorously)


 Context examples 


You don't depend upon wife-beaters and pickpockets for your income.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Some twenty well-known prize-fighters, including my friend Bill Warr, Black Richmond, Maddox, The Pride of Westminster, Tom Belcher, Paddington Jones, Tough Tom Blake, Symonds the ruffian, Tyne the tailor, and others, were stationed in the outer ring as beaters.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they came up to them, Alleyne could hear the doleful dirge which the beater was chanting, bringing down his heavy whip at the end of each line, while the groans of the sufferer formed a sort of dismal chorus.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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