Beater
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Beater may refer to:
- Beater (weaving)Beater (weaving)A beater is a weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. In small hand weaving such as Inkle weaving and tablet weaving the beater may be combined with the shuttle into a single tool. In rigid heddle looms the beater is combined with the heddles...
, a tool used to force woven yarn into place - Various types of percussion mallets
- A ruteRute (music)The rute is a beater for drums. Commercially-made rutes are usually made of a bundle of thin birch dowels or thin canes attached to a drumstick handle. These often have a movable band to adjust how tightly the dowels are bound toward the tip. A rute may also be made of a bundle of twigs attached...
- The striking part of a bass drum pedal
- A rute
- A position in the fictional game of QuidditchQuidditchQuidditch is a fictional sport developed by British author J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series of novels. It is described as an extremely rough, but very popular, semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world...
from the Harry Potter series - Another name for Glamdring, Gandalf's sword, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
- A machine used in papermakingPapermakingPapermaking is the process of making paper, a substance which is used universally today for writing and packaging.In papermaking a dilute suspension of fibres in water is drained through a screen, so that a mat of randomly interwoven fibres is laid down. Water is removed from this mat of fibres by...
- One of the rapidly rotating attachments on a cooking mixerMixer (cooking)A mixer is a kitchen appliance intended for mixing, folding, beating, and whipping food ingredients. Mixers come in two major variations, hand mixers and stand mixers....
- Egg beater (disambiguation)
- A jalopyJalopyA jalopy is a decrepit car, often old and in a barely functional state. A jalopy is not a well kept antique car, but a car which is mostly rundown or beaten up. As a slang term in American English, "Jalopy" was noted in 1924 but is now slightly passé...
, or by extension, a car meant for daily use and not for show - A shortening of "wifebeater", a colloquialism for particular style of sleeveless shirt
- A Harp SealHarp SealThe harp seal or saddleback seal is a species of earless seal native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean. It now belongs to the monotypic genus Pagophilus. Its scientific name, Pagophilus groenlandicus, means "ice-lover from Greenland", and its synonym, Phoca...
that is approximately 3-4 weeks to one year of age - In hunting, a person who drives game out of areas of cover by swinging sticks or flags