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beater Noun 1. a device used for beating: a carpet beater 2. a person who rouses wild game
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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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