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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beefeater \Beef"eat`er\, n. [Beef + eater; prob. one who eats another's beef, as his servant. Cf AS hl[=a]f?ta 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. (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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beefeater n : officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: {yeoman}, {yeoman of the guard}]
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