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Webster 1913 Edition
Beefeater
Beef′eatˊer
(bēf′ētˊẽr)
, Noun.
[
Beef
+ eater
; prob. one who eats another’s beef
, as his servant. Cf. AS. hlāfǣta
servant, properly a loaf eater.] 1.
One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
2.
One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
3.
(Zool.)
An African bird of the genus
Buphaga
, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.