Batter
['bætə] or ['bætɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking.
(noun.) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.
Typist: Rex--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
(v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
(v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
(v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.
(v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
(n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
(v. i.) To slope gently backward.
(n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.
Checker: Roy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Beat, smite, pelt, dash against.[2]. Bruise, break, shatter, shiver, smash, demolish, destroy, strike down, knock down, shake to pieces, shiver to pieces.
v. n. (Masonry.) Slope backward.
n. (Masonry.) Slope backward.
Checker: Sheena
Definition
n. the inclination of a wall from the perpendicular.—v.i. to slope backward from the perpendicular.
v.t. to beat with successive blows: to wear with beating or by use: to attack with artillery.—n. ingredients beaten along with some liquid into a paste: paste for sticking.—ns. Bat′tering-charge the full charge of powder for a cannon; Bat′tering-ram an ancient engine for battering down walls consisting of a large beam with an iron head like that of a ram.
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- They'll batter them in! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The talking ceased, and Fairway gave a circular motion to the rope, as if he were stirring batter. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He brings actions for assault and battery; I defend them and continue to assault and batter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- For I never was less disposed to forgive him the way he used to batter Traddles, than when I saw Traddles so ready to forgive him himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So you did--so you did, honey, said Aunt Chloe, heaping the smoking batter-cakes on his plate; you know'd your old aunty'd keep the best for you. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I suppose you are only just come down--you look rather battered--you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am much too battered and old for such a fine young lady as Glorvina. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Haply, but for her, I should ha' gone battering mad. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
Edited by Charlene