beater
/ˈbitɚ/ noun C1- Someone or something that beats.
- A kitchen implement for mixing.
- An implement used to strike certain percussion instruments.
- A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
- A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
- An old or dilapidated automobile.
- 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.
- 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.
Plural beaters
From the library
Teacher of the Law--cub-beater--a mile of that rolling to and fro would burst thee open.
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