beater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
lifestyle
manufacturing
music
textiles
weaving
Etymology: From Middle English beter, betere, bettere, from Old English bēatere (“a beater; boxer, fighter; champion”), equivalent to beat + -er. Related to beetle (“a type of mallet”).
Base: beat
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: beaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that beats.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A kitchen implement for mixing.
pos: noun
gloss: A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
"Our beaters are doing a marvellous job, just listen to them, will you?"
gloss: A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
pos: noun
gloss: An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: Packed merrily into my friends’ beater, an old Ford Pinto, we headed into Jennings, a mostly Black North St. Louis County community heavily patrolled by white officers, to pick up one more college friend.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Beaters generally don't sell for much, unless they're a particularly legendary model, and they’re generally sold without the original box or extra laces. Unlike most "worn" sneakers that have been kept as close to perfect as possible, beaters tend to be the shoes used for rainy days and in the gym.
What constitutes a beater varies from person to person — some might consider affordable sneakers like the Vans Sk8-Hi or a pair of Nike Air Force 1s a pair worth beating to death, while other sneakerheads might discover that one of their favorite "hyped" sneakers just naturally becomes a beater over time.
5 low-key footwear brands making the trusty summer beater feel exciting again.
gloss: A durable and usually inexpensive wristwatch.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: bare beater
beaterman
beater-upper
Bible beater
buzzer beater
buzzer-beater
carpet beater
carpet-beater
daily beater
dew-beater
drumbeater
eggbeater
egg beater
farebeater
fire beater
goldbeater
gold-beater
Hollander beater
panel beater
rotary beater
silverbeater
wife-beater
wife beater
world-beater
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