eggbeater

plural eggbeaters · alternative egg beater

1. A kitchen utensil that uses rotating blades to beat eggs.
2. datedpossiblyuncommonA (wire) whisk.

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

   1919, Herald and Presbyter, page 30

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   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.

   1920, William Hallock Park, Public Health and Hygiene: In Contributions by Eminent Authorities, page 57

   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 […]

   1944, Popular Mechanics, page 118

3. A swimming stroke involving alternating kicks.
4. slanggovernmentA helicopter.

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

   2008, George Galdorisi, Thomas Phillips, Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue

5. slangAn outboard motor.