1. beater - Noun
2. beater - Adjective
One who, or that which, beats.
A person who beats up game for the hunters.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA bass drum pedal operates much the same as the hi-hat control; a footplate is pressed to pull a chain, belt, or metal drive mechanism downward, bringing a beater or mallet forward into the drumhead. Source: Internet
Actor Johnny Depp on Friday (Nov 6) was forced out of the Fantastic Beasts movie franchise days after in Britain against a tabloid that called him a "wife beater". Source: Internet
At a higher CMC, Avenger of Zendikar is a huger beater that makes a platoon of 0/1 Plant tokens, and each Landfall trigger will put +1/+1 counters on all friendly Plants. Source: Internet
Other methods of playing include scraping a coin or a triangle beater rapidly across the ridges on the top of the cymbal, giving a "zing" sound (as some players do in the fourth movement of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 ). Source: Internet
Depp is suing The Sun's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and executive editor Dan Wootton, over an article published in 2018 that labelled him a "wife beater" - an allegation he strenuously denies. Source: Internet
Membranophones produce sound when the membrane or head is struck with a hand, mallet, stick, beater, or improvised tool." Source: Internet