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beater|ˈbiːtə(r)|
[f. beat v.1 + -er1.]
He who, or that which, beats. (In various senses of the vb.)
1. a. A person who beats; one who strikes repeated blows, a striker; a punisher; one who ‘beats’ or walks the streets (obs.); one who beats metals, e.g. a gold-beater; one who beats a drum, etc.
1483Cath. Angl. 30 A beter, verberator..baculator. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 116 Of night watchers and beters of the stretes, playing by night on instrumentes. 1571R. Ascham Scholem. (1863) 11 Even the wisest of your great beaters, do as oft punishe nature, as they do correcte faultes. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 45 He must the hand that bastinades him kisse; And give his beater thanks with all his heart.
b. A man employed in rousing and driving game.
1825Ford Handbk. Spain i. 105 The intelligence with which these Spanish beaters track and recover a wounded deer. 1859Tennent Ceylon II. viii. iv. 350 The beaters address themselves to drive in the elephants.
c. In comb., as beater up.
1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. viii. 87 Who were beholders Of these the Beaters up for Soldiers.
2. a. An instrument or contrivance for beating; generally, an implement for beating flat or pounding; but used in many specific technical senses (see quots.).
1611Cotgr., Eschandole..Thatchers Beater. Ibid., Rabat..a beater, the staffe wherwith Plaisterers beat their morter. 1632Sherwood s.v. Ball, A Printer's ball, Pompet, or beater. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Building, The mortar must be well beaten with a beater. 1828H. Steuart Planter's G. 303 Wooden Beater, made in the fashion of the beater used by paviers. 1851Coal-tr. Terms. Northumbld. & Durh., Beater, an iron rod, used for stemming or tamping a hole, preparatory to blasting. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 210/1 The beater [in cotton-spinning]..is composed of two, and sometimes three iron bars or blades. 1883Gd. Words July 442/1 Pounding it [rice] in a wooden or stone mortar with hard wooden beaters. 1883Blackw. Mag. Aug. 234 All armed with one or two long switches of birch called technically ‘beaters’ or ‘trees.’
b. Paper-making. A pulping machine. Also attrib. and Comb., as beater plate, beater roll; beater-man, the operative who has charge of a pulping machine or beating-engine.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 368 (Paper manufacture) The only difference between the washing-engine and the beater is that the teeth of the latter are finer. 1880J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 44 Two chests should be used, the beaterman emptying into the one, and the machine-man working from the other. Ibid. 71 The beater roll and plate should..be in good order.
3. A person or thing that beats or excels others. U.S. colloq.
1845S. Judd Margaret ii. v. 283 Take it by and large..and she is the beater of all. 1886Harper's Mag. Sept. 580/2 I've heerd news that beats the beater! Ibid. Nov. 835/1 Well, for getting sunthin outer northing, she's a beater! |