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BEATER (beater)
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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 hunter
Familiarity information: BEATER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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