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A beater pressing weft yarns into place.
Credit: Yanagawa Shigenobu

A beater is a weaving tool designed to push the weft yard securely into place. In hand weaving, they may sometimes be combined with the shuttle into a single tool. They appear both in a hand-held form, and as an integral part of a loom.