Beater
# 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
