BATTER

batter

(noun) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking

batter, hitter, slugger, batsman

(noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

dinge, batter

(verb) make a dent or impression in; “dinge a soft hat”

clobber, baste, batter

(verb) strike violently and repeatedly; “She clobbered the man who tried to attack her”

buffet, knock about, batter

(verb) strike against forcefully; “Winds buffeted the tent”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

Synonym: thrash

(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

Synonym: intoxicate

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Etymology 2

Noun

batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)

(cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying

(countable, slang) A binge, a heavy drinking session.

Synonym: binge

A paste of clay or loam.

(countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Etymology 3

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Etymology 4

Noun

batter (plural batters)

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)

(cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

Synonym: batsman

Hyponyms: batswoman, batsman

Hypernym: cricketer

Anagrams

• Tarbet, tabret

Source: Wiktionary

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Bat"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Battered (; p. pr. & vb. n. Battering.] Etym: [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to abate.]

1. To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

2. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." Pope.

3. (Metallurgy)

Definition: To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Bat"ter, n. Etym: [OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See Batter, v. t.]

1. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

2. Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

3. (Printing)

Definition: A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Bat"ter, n.

Definition: A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

Bat"ter, v. i. (Arch.)

Definition: To slope gently backward.

Bat"ter, n.

Definition: One who wields a bat; a batsman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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