Beater

Beater may refer to:

Clothes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Bruno Beater (1914–1982), East German intelligence officer and politician

Other uses

• A harp seal, that is approximately 3–4 weeks to one year of age
• A beater in hunting, a person who drives game out of areas of cover by swinging sticks or flags
• MV Beater, a sealer wrecked by Hurricane Daisy in October 1962