batter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
    batsman; slugger; hitter.
  2. noun a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
  3. verb strike against forcefully
    knock about; buffet.
    • Winds buffeted the tent
  4. verb strike violently and repeatedly
    baste; clobber.
    • She clobbered the man who tried to attack her
  5. verb make a dent or impression in
    dinge.
    • dinge a soft hat

WordNet

Bat"ter transitive verb
Etymology
OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to abate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Battered ; present participle & verbal noun Battering
Definitions
  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) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Bat"ter noun
Etymology
OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See Batter, v. t.
Definitions
  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) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Bat"ter noun
Definitions
  1. A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Bat"ter intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.
Bat"ter noun
Definitions
  1. One who wields a bat; a batsman.

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