Beater
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Beater may refer to:
Clothes
[edit]- Beater (weaving), a tool used to force woven yarn into place
- Carpet beater, a housecleaning tool used to beat carpets, clothes, and bedding to shake the dust and dirt out of them.
- A shortening of "wifebeater" (shirt), a colloquialism for particular style of sleeveless shirt
Music
[edit]- Any of various types of percussion mallets
- A rute
- The striking part of a Bass drum pedal
- The cipín used for playing the bodhrán
Fiction
[edit]- A position in the fictional game of Quidditch from the Harry Potter series
- Another name for Glamdring, Gandalf's sword, in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
- A name the main character Kirito, takes in the anime Sword Art Online
Technology
[edit]- A machine used in papermaking
- An attachment for a cooking mixer
- Egg beater (disambiguation)
- A jalopy, or by extension, a car meant for daily use and not for show
People with the surname
[edit]- Bruno Beater (1914–1982), East German intelligence officer and politician