title: Beater
text: # Beater
  
  Beater may refer to:
  
  ## Clothes
  
  * Beater (weaving), a tool used to force woven yarn into place
  * 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
  