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beater
[< beat make one's way with persistence in the face of difficulties + -er]
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:bater, beating seal
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a young harp seal whose white coat is beginning to show gray tinges and dark spots.
Quotations
1924
Bater. a beating seal; young migrating seal.
1933
Now [the whitecoats] became the "beaters" of the Seal Hunt, and of certain surety every little head will be pointing for the North.
1966
Baby seals are bought by an English firm and used to make coats; beaters, the harp seals between three weeks and a year old, are bought by a Norwegian firm and used for jackets.