English
batter
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈbætə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]
Etymology 1

From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre.

Verb

batter (batters, present participle battering; simple past and past participle battered)

  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
    The firemen battered down the door.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii ↗:
      The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
      That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
      Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.
  2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
    I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
    Synonyms: thrash
    Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
    Synonyms: intoxicate
    That cocktail will batter you!
    I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
  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.
Translations Translations Translations
  • German: plattschlagen
Etymology 2

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure, from batre ("to beat").

Noun

batter

  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.
    To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.
  2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
    Synonyms: bender, binge
    When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
  3. A paste of clay or loam.
    • 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, →OCLC ↗:
      The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks]
  4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
    • 1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer, page 251:
      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.
Translations Translations Verb

batter (batters, present participle battering; simple past and past participle battered)

  1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Translations Etymology 4

From bat + -er.

Noun

batter (plural batters)

  1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
    Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
    The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
  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.
    • 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo‎:
      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.
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