beater

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beat·er

(bē′tər)

1. One that beats, especially a device for beating: a carpet beater.

2. A person who drives wild game from under cover for a hunter.

3. Offensive Slang A tight-fitting, white sleeveless undershirt.

4. Informal An old, dilapidated automobile.

[Sense 3, short for wifebeater.]

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beater

(ˈbiːtə)

1. a person who beats or hammers: a panel beater.

2. (Tools) an instrument or device used for beating: a carpet beater.

3. (Professions) a person who rouses wild game from woodland, undergrowth, etc

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

beat•er

(ˈbi tər)

n.

1. a person or thing that beats.

2. an implement or device for beating something.

3. (in a hunt) a person who drives game from cover.

[1400–50]

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Noun	1.	beater - a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	2.	beater - an implement for beating carpet beater, rug beater - implement for beating dust out of carpets eggwhisk, eggbeater - a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream implement - instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end

Translations

paličkašlehač

piskerpiskeris

Treiber Quirl Schläger Schneebesen

batteur

hajtó

hamrari; òeytari; fælari

battitore

wrak

banker hjulvisp visp

взбивалка загонщик развалюха

çırpıcıdövenvuran

敲打者

beater

[ˈbiːtəʳ] N

1. (Culin) → batidora f (also carpet beater) → sacudidor m
see also panel, wife, world B

2. (Hunting) → ojeador(a) m/f, batidor(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

beater

[ˈbiːtə^r] n (for eggs, cream) → fouet m, batteur m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

beater

(= carpet beater) → Klopfer m; (= egg beater) → Schneebesen m

(Hunt) → Treiber(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

beater

[ˈbiːtəʳ] n (Culin) → frullino; (carpet beater) → battipanni m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

beat

(biːt) – past tense beat: past participle ˈbeaten – verb

1. to strike or hit repeatedly. Beat the drum.

2. to win against. She beat me in a contest.

3. to mix thoroughly. to beat an egg.

4. to move in a regular rhythm. My heart is beating faster than usual.

5. to mark or indicate (musical time) with a baton etc. A conductor beats time for an orchestra.

noun

1. a regular stroke or its sound. I like the beat of that song.

2. a regular or usual course. a policeman's beat.

ˈbeater noun

ˈbeating noun

ˈbeaten adjective

1. overcome; defeated. the beaten team; He looked tired and beaten.

2. mixed thoroughly. beaten egg.

beat about the bush

to approach a subject in an indirect way, without coming to the point or making any decision.

beat down

1. (of the sun) to give out great heat. The sun's rays beat down on us.

2. to (force to) lower a price by bargaining. We beat the price down; We beat him down to a good price.

beat it

to go away. Beat it, or I'll hit you!; She told her little brother to beat it.

beat off

to succeed in overcoming or preventing. The old man beat off the youths who attacked him; He beat the attack off easily.

beat a (hasty) retreat

to go away in a hurry. The children beat a hasty retreat when he appeared.

beat up

to punch, kick or hit (a person) severely and repeatedly. He beat up an old lady.

off the beaten track

away from main roads, centres of population etc.

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The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like a wild animal, had seemed to him to pre-figure death for himself also.

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I saw him thrash a poor beater once in the Saxe Leinitzer forests.

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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.

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After this, I made a great heavy pestle or beater of the wood called the iron-wood; and this I prepared and laid by against I had my next crop of corn, which I proposed to myself to grind, or rather pound into meal to make bread.

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He crawled back over the huddled dogs, dusted the dry snow from his furs with the whalebone beater that Amoraq kept by the door, tapped the skin-lined roof of the house to shake off any icicles that might have fallen from the dome of snow above, and curled up on the bench.

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The cousins generally are rather shy of Chesney Wold in its dullness, but take to it a little in the shooting season, when guns are heard in the plantations, and a few scattered beaters and keepers wait at the old places of appointment for low-spirited twos and threes of cousins.

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He felt his blood tingling through his veins as the beaters approached closer and closer to the birds.

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Having, therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.

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In York the shipwrights acted the building of the ark, the fishmongers the Flood, and the gold- beaters and money-workers the three Kings out of the East.

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If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt."

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Once again the beaters took up their drumming and the slow dance went on.

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The fire lay like a dying thing, close to the ground and wicked; it gave a leap of anguish at every whack of the beaters. But now Grubb had gone off to stainp out the burning blanket; the others were lacking just at the moment of victory.