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