\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.