batter
Pronunciation Etymology 1
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Pronunciation Etymology 1
From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre.
Verbbatter (batters, present participle battering; simple past and past participle battered)
- 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.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- Synonyms: thrash
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- Synonyms: intoxicate
- That cocktail will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
- German: (of doors) rammen, (of humans, animals) prügeln, schlagen, auf etwas einprügeln, zerschmettern, zusammenschlagen, einschlagen, verprügeln, bombardieren, zerschlagen, einstoßen, klopfen, beschießen, heftig schlagen
- Italian: battere
- Portuguese: bater, espancar
- Russian: избива́ть
- Spanish: apalear
- German: plattschlagen
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure, from batre ("to beat").
Nounbatter
- (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.
- (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- Synonyms: bender, binge
- When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
- 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]
- (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.
- French: pâte
- German: Backteig, Ausbackteig, Teig, Pfannkuchenteig, Eischwerteig, dünner Teig
- Italian: impasto, pastella
- Portuguese: polme
- Russian: те́сто
- Spanish: batido
- German: Gelage, Trinkgelage, Saufgelage, Besäufnis
- Italian: bisboccia, gozzoviglia
- Russian: запо́й
- Spanish: botellón
batter (batters, present participle battering; simple past and past participle battered)
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
batter (plural batters)
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- German: Neigung, Böschung, Anlauf, Dossierung
- Spanish: pendiente
batter (plural batters)
- (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.
- (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
- (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- (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.
- (all cricket senses) batsman
- French: batteur, frappeur
- German: Batter
- Italian: battitore
- Portuguese: batedor
- Russian: бэ́ттер
- Spanish: bateador
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