eggbeater
nounEtymology From egg + beater.
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A kitchen utensil that uses rotating blades to beat eggs.
- With a wire eggbeater, lower the oysters into this three or four at a time.1919, Herald and Presbyter, page 30:
- Bleeding.—Bleeding for therapuetic sera are made with trocar and rubber tube into 2-liter Erlenmeyer flasks having a large flat wire eggbeater to support the clot. After the flask is about half-full, it is tilted on the side where the wire is inserted.1920, William Hallock Park, Public Health and Hygiene: In Contributions by Eminent Authorities, page 57:
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- Taking advantage of the fact that a wire eggbeater of the type shown [pictured: a flat whisk] is so easily fastened between a camera tilt-head and the tripod, one photographer used such a beater to steady his camera […]1944, Popular Mechanics, page 118:
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A swimming stroke involving alternating kicks.
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Government, Military, Politics, War Slang A helicopter.
- He scanned the horizon to the south, searching in vain for the eggbeater.2008, George Galdorisi, Thomas Phillips, Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue:
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Slang An outboard motor.
- Synonyms
- rotary beater
- Derived terms
- eggbeater drill