Definition of "batter"

batter¹

/ˈbætɚ/

verb
third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered
1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
  Quotations
  The golden ſtature of their feathered birdThat ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act IIII, scene ii
  The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
  2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, pages 56–57
2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
  Quotations
  There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
  2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 June 2018
4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
  Quotations
  the bible mentioned in the oath emitted this day , by Andrew Murison , as the book and bible from whence the printed leaves , battered on the B. L. Coy's notes , now challenged as forged , are alleged to be taken
  1826, Thomas Beveridge, A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process...‎

batter²

/ˈbætɚ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural batters
1. (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.
2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
3. A paste of clay or loam.
  Quotations
  The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks]
  1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635
4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
  Quotations
  In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side.
  1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer, page 251

batter³

/ˈbætɚ/

verb
third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered
1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
noun
plural batters
1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

batter⁴

/ˈbætɚ/

noun
plural batters
1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
2. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
3. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
4. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
  Quotations
  It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.
  2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo‎

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