eggbeater
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "With a wire eggbeater, lower the oysters into this three or four at a time."
- "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."
- "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 […]"
- "He scanned the horizon to the south, searching in vain for the eggbeater."