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# beater

«beater» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who goes through bushes or woods to drive out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (beaters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A beater is a person who goes through bushes or woods to drive out game such as deer or birds towards the hunters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#m1)

2) A beater is also a tool for beating, such as a carpet beater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in hunting stories, the people who make the deer run towards the prince

### examples

- The beaters shouted through the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#x1)
- The deer tried to escape the ring of beaters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#x2)
- The hunters waited while the beaters drove the birds out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#x3)
- Mum used a carpet beater on the rug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beater» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beater/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.