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Beater

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Beater may refer to:

Clothes

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  • 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

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Fiction

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  • 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

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People with the surname

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

Other uses

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  • 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