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bat·ter1

[bat-er] Pronunciation Key

–verb (used with object)

1.	to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly.

2.	to damage by beating or hard usage: Rough roads had battered the car. High winds were battering the coast.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to deal heavy, repeated blows; pound steadily: continuing to batter at the front door.

–noun

Printing.

a.	a damaged area on the face of type or plate.

b.	the resulting defect in print.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME bateren, prob. < MF, OF batre to beat (see bate²), with the inf. ending identified with -er⁶; cf. AF baterer

]

—Synonyms 1. belabor, smite, pelt. 2. bruise, wound; smash, shatter, shiver; destroy, ruin.

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bat·ter2

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–noun

1.	a mixture of flour, milk or water, eggs, etc., beaten together for use in cookery.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to coat with batter.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME bat(o)ur, bat(e)re, perh. < AF bature, OF bat(e)ure act of beating (bat(re) to beat (see bate²) + -eure < *-ātūra; see -ate², -ure), reinforced by batter¹

]

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bat·ter3

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–noun

a player who swings a bat or whose turn it is to bat, as in baseball or cricket.

[Origin: 1765–75; bat¹ + -er¹

]

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bat·ter4

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–verb (used without object)

1.	(of the face of a wall or the like) to slope backward and upward.

–noun

2.	a backward and upward slope of the face of a wall or the like.

[Origin: 1540–50; of obscure orig.

]

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bat·ter¹   (bāt'ər) Pronunciation Key
v.   bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters

v.   tr.

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.
To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.
To damage, as by heavy wear.

v. intr.
To pound repeatedly with heavy blows.

n. Printing
A damaged area on the face of type or on a plate.

[Middle English bateren, from Old French batre, from Late Latin battere, from Latin battuere.]

Synonyms: These verbs mean to damage, injure, or disfigure by beating, abuse, or hard use: a house battered by a hurricane; a construction worker maimed in an accident; machinery that mangled the worker's fingers; a tent mauled by a hungry bear; mutilated the painting with a razor. See Also Synonyms at beat.

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bat·ter² (bāt'ər) Pronunciation Key
n. Sports
The player at bat in baseball and cricket.

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bat·ter³   (bāt'ər) Pronunciation Key
n.   A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, milk, and eggs, used in cooking.

tr.v.   bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters
To coat in batter: battered the vegetables and then fried them.

[Middle English bater, probably from Old French bateure, a beating, from batre, to beat; see batter¹.]

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bat·ter⁴   (bāt'ər) Pronunciation Key
n.   A slope, as of the outer face of a wall, that recedes from bottom to top.

tr.v.   bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters
To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.

[Origin unknown.]

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batter (v.)

"strike repeatedly," c.1330, from O.Fr. battre "to beat, strike," from L. battuere "to beat," an old word in Latin, but almost certainly borrowed from Gaulish, from PIE base *bhau- "to strike" (cf. Welsh bathu "beat;" O.E. beadu "battle," beatan "to beat," bytl "hammer, mallet"). Began to be widely used 1962 in reference to domestic abuse. Battering-ram is an ancient weapon (L. aries), but the word attested only from 1611.

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batter (n.)

"flour and milk," 1381, from O.Fr. batteure "a beating," from L. battuere (see batter (v.)).

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batter
noun
1.	(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
2.	a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
verb
1.	strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet]
2.	strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber]
3.	make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat" [syn: dinge]

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Batter

Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Battered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Battering.] [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) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

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Batter

Bat"ter\, n. [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) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

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Batter

Bat"ter\, n. 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.

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Batter

Bat"ter\, v. i. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.

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Batter

Bat"ter\, n. One who wields a bat; a batsman.

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