beater

1. 1.

   a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter

   Broaderworker
2. 2.

   an implement for beating

   Broaderimplement

   Narrowercarpet beatereggbeater

Other forms of beater

plural

beaters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beater

What does beater mean?

beater means "a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beater?

beater has 2 syllables: bea-ter. The stress falls on "bea". In IPA it is /ˈbitɚ/.

Is beater a common word?

beater is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.