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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: beefeater (0.00894 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to beefeater.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: beefeater
beefeater
n : officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
[syn:
yeoman,
yeoman of the guard]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Beefeater
Beefeater
\Beef"eat`er\ (b[=e]f"[=e]t`[~e]r), n. [Beef + eater;
prob. one who eats another's beef, as his servant. Cf. AS.
hl[=a]f[=ae]ta servant, properly a loaf eater.]
1. One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.
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2. One of the yeomen of the guard, in England.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) An African bird of the genus
Buphaga, which
feeds on the larv[ae] of botflies hatched under the skin
of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.
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