Beater
['biːtə] or ['bitɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an implement for beating.
(noun.) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter.
Checker: Quincy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, beats.
(n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.
Editor: Stu
Examples
- In the Fourdrinier process rags are ground to a pulp by a revolving beater (Fig. 125) working in a tank of water. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- My first impulse upon taking any apparatus into my hand, from an egg-beater to an electric motor, is to seek a way of improving it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This machine contains a number of rotating beaters and high-pressure streams of water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another form has vibrating arms or beaters, giving between four hundred and five hundred strokes a minute, and by which the clothes are squeezed between rubbing corrugated boards. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And in another city where Sunday closing was strictly enforced, a minister told me with painful surprise that the Monday police blotter showed less drunks and more wife-beaters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Truman