Egg-beater

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  egg beater \egg beater\, egg-beater \egg-beater\n.
     a small device having one or usually two blades, each having
     several stiff oval wires at the tip. The blades are swirled
     or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream. The electrical
     variety typically have two such blades, which are arranged so
     that the tips of the blades interlace while rotating.


  
     Syn: eggwhisk.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eggbeater
       n 1: an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the
            rotation of overhead blades [syn: {helicopter}, {chopper},
             {whirlybird}]
       2: a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream [syn: {eggwhisk}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "eggbeater":
     agitator, beater, blender, cement mixer, chopper, churn, copter,
     crucible, emulsifier, helicopter, jiggler, melting pot, mixer,
     paddle, rotary-wing aircraft, rotor plane, shaker, vibrator,
     whirlybird, whisk, windmill