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Webster 1828 Edition

Beef-eater

BEE'F-EATER

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Noun.

[beef and eat.] One that eats beef.

1.

A yeoman of the guards, in England.

2.

The Buphaga, an African bird that feeds on the larvas which nestle under the hides of oxen.

3.

In popular use, a stout fleshy man.