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beater [′bēd·ər] (agriculture) A device for chopping or pulverizing unwanted parts of crops such as cornstalks or potato vines. The part of a thresher that strikes the grains. (engineering) A tool for packing in material to fill a blasthole containing a charge of powder. A laborer who shovels or dumps asbestos fibers and sprays them with water in order to prepare them for the beating. (mechanical engineering) A machine that cuts or beats paper stock. (textiles) The section of a loom that drives the weft from the shed into the cloth. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. I saw him thrash a poor beater once in the Saxe Leinitzer forests. 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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