Sentence examples for as a beater from inspiring English sources

When I was a girl, my father, the mushroom expert, used to earn pocket money by working as a beater on one of the Derbyshire estates.

As a teenager I sometimes worked as a beater or loader, and I think it is fair to say that the pheasant shoot is one of the most odious spectacles I have ever witnessed.

"You have to be fit," said Evan Wright, 21, who plays as a beater – one of two positions responsible for hurling the bludgers (dodgeballs), which momentarily knock players out of play.

To make the fabrics that he transforms, Ms. Parke sits at one of her eight-harness Leclerc looms, pumping the treadles with her feet and pulling rhythmically back on a horizontal beam known as a beater bar to push the weft thread securely into the weave.

Mr. Collins carried 45 pounds of equipment on his belt, including two spud wrenches; an eight-pound sledgehammer known to ironworkers as a beater; a crowbarlike tool used to pry steel beams; and a few dozen inch-thick bolts in a hip pouch.

A young peasant named Diermot is employed as a beater for the king's hunting party.

As for O'Neal: "I don't even want to characterise Ryan as a beater-upper.

On Monday, Sun will try to cast itself as a Microsoft beater.

Yesterday, Schlumberger chairman and chief executive Euan Baird described the mix of oilfields and IT as a world beater.

Guerrero's father went ballistic at the news conference, referring repeatedly to Mayweather as a "woman beater" for the incident that landed him in jail.

It seemed, however, that a relatively subdued Mayweather was irked by more than just the determination to forever define him, first and foremost, as a woman beater.