That which beats all competitors.
1833. Old rugged-an’-tough they used to call his dad, famous wrastler he was too, warped with hoop-poles an’ filled with oven-wood; beatemest fellow ever you see for some things.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 62.
1838. Your the beatomest shakes, I ever seed.—B. Drake, ‘Tales and Sketches,’ p. 30 (Cincinnati).
1874. Well, I poked a few questions at him and I reckon I am the beatin’est man to ax questions in this neck of timber.—E. Eggleston, ‘The Circuit Rider,’ p. 147.
1908. Of all the preachers that ever I heard, he certainly is the beatenest.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 32–3.
