Beaten oil
beaten oil
(Ex. 27:20; 29:40), obtained by pounding olives in a mortar, not by crushing them in a mill. It was reckoned the best. (See OLIVE.)
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beaten gold in Num. 8:4, means “turned” or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word “solid gold;” the Revised Version, “beaten work of gold.” In 1 Kings 10:16, 17, it probably means “mixed” gold, as the word ought to be rendered, i.e., not pure gold. Others render the word in these […]
- Beaten track
see: off the beaten track Historical Examples Maulevrier says it is delightfully amusing—ever so much better than the beaten track of life in Anglo-American Paris.’ Phantom Fortune, A Novel M. E. Braddon His tread will be heavier and heavier upon the broad and beaten track. Popular Education Ira Mayhew The plan of the story is […]
- Beaten-up
beaten-up Related Terms beat-up Historical Examples Instead of adding pepper and salt to the beaten-up eggs, add one or two tablespoonfuls of finely powdered sugar. Cassell’s Vegetarian Cookery A. G. Payne A stream of froth pours from his mouth like beaten-up white of egg. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean Henri Fabre When the cheese […]
- Beatenest
beatinest. most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see. Historical Examples If they warn’t the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) He is the beatenest man to get off jokes I ever knowed, to be as old as […]
- Beater
a person or thing that beats. an implement or device for beating something: a rug beater. Hunting. a person who rouses or drives game from cover. Papermaking. a machine for beating half-stuff to pulp by separating and shortening the fibers to produce a gelatinous mass. Textiles. the reed. Newfoundland. a young seal, usually a month […]