Beef"eat`er (?), n. [Beef +
eater; prob. one who eats another's beef, as his servant. Cf.
AS. hlāf?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. (Zoöl.) An African bird of the genus
Buphaga, which feeds on the larvæ of botflies hatched under
the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known.