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verb

Batter v. t. (past & past part. battered; pres. part. battering)

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.

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

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

Batter v. i. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.

noun

Batter n.

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

Paste of clay or loam.

(Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Batter 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.

Batter n. The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

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"Batter" Quotes from Famous Books

... corner of Arbour hill there and be damned but a bloody sweep came along and he near drove his gear into my eye. I turned around to let him have the weight of my tongue when who should I see dodging along Stony Batter only Joe Hynes. ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... and faced me with blazing eyes, the picture of embarrassment and fury. "You consider the things I've been thinking the last couple of days 'rather interesting!' Oh," she cried, dashing the pan of corn meal batter to the ground, "you're damnable—I hate you!" There was a whirl of a skirt, the twinkle of a little booted foot, and, by Jove, she had gone flying off like the wind; while I, feeling about the size of a june-bug, stood first on one leg and then the other, wondering ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... which James Batter and me think excellent, and if any one think otherwise, I wad just thank them to write better ...

— Verses and Rhymes by the way • Nora Pembroke

... Barsoom, whose famous challenge to Fate, "I still live!" remained the one irreducible defense against despair? At thought of her noble sire the patrician chin of Tara of Helium rose a shade higher. Ah! if he but knew where she was there were little to fear then. The hosts of Helium would batter at the gates of Manator, the great green warriors of John Carter's savage allies would swarm up from the dead sea bottoms lusting for pillage and for loot, the stately ships of her beloved navy would soar above the unprotected towers and ...

— The Chessmen of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... breakfast—big tin cups of scalding coffee! sugar! fresh meat! double allowance of meal! They broiled the meat on sharpened sticks, using the skillets for batter bread; they grinned at the sugar before they dropped it in, they purred over the coffee. Mingling with the entrancing odours was the consciousness of having marched well, fought well, deserved well. Down the pike, where Taylor kept the rear, burst a rattle of musketry. ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

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