EGAVE

beater

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Someone or something that beats.
  2. noun A kitchen implement for mixing.
  3. noun An implement used to strike certain percussion instruments.
  4. noun A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
  5. noun A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
  6. noun An old or dilapidated automobile.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

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Often followed by

and is or until of to in for was

Word family

beaters

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