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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An instrument having a piece to be twirled by the hand, for use in whipping eggs.

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Examples

  • The air around the cranks is very “dirty” from the egg-beater of pedaling legs.

    Ask Nick: Speed wobble, shoe covers and single-ringing it 2011

  • Mrs. Paul's cheery soprano, lifted in a hymn, doated through the trees, accompanied by the whirr of an egg-beater.

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

  • Be it an ancient egg-beater to a strand of Christmas lights, Wall-E proves himself to be move of a collector/scavenger than anything.

    Review: Wall-E #0 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • We moved him out of the crib too soon causing “boomerang bedtimes” and ended up sleeping with an egg-beater (because, truly, how else can you descirbe sleeping with a toddler?).

    The Grabbing Hands, Grab All They Can | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • In 1931 a Frenchman, Georges Darrieus, patented a wind turbine that operates on an entirely different principle with two thin, curved blades fixed to a central axis, in a design often compared to an egg-beater.

    QUIET REVOLUTION WIND TURBINE | Inhabitat 2006

  • Now slowly keep adding the besan a little at a time, constantly stirring or beating the mixture use an egg-beater so no lumps are formed.

    Vaghareli Khichdi and Gujarati Kadhhi 2008

  • Now slowly keep adding the besan a little at a time, constantly stirring or beating the mixture use an egg-beater so no lumps are formed.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • Now, any kind of improvised performance makes me slightly uneasy due to bone chilling memories of highschool Theatre Sports contests when I would invariably remember mid sketch that I would rather be hacked to death with an egg-beater than appear in front of an audience without a prepared script.

    ...and hilarity ensues 2007

  • Now, any kind of improvised performance makes me slightly uneasy due to bone chilling memories of highschool Theatre Sports contests when I would invariably remember mid sketch that I would rather be hacked to death with an egg-beater than appear in front of an audience without a prepared script.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • The re-entrance of the egg-beater put a stop to it.

    The Silver Spoon 2004

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