Meaning of Eggbeater | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A kitchen utensil that uses rotating blades to beat eggs.
2. A (wire) whisk.
   dated, possibly, uncommon
3. A swimming stroke involving alternating kicks.
4. A helicopter.
   slang
5. An outboard motor.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“With a wire eggbeater, lower the oysters into this three or four at a time.”

“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.”

“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 […]”

“He scanned the horizon to the south, searching in vain for the eggbeater.”

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