Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To incline from the perpendicular: said of a wall whose face recedes as it rises: opposed to overhang.
- noun A mixture of several ingredients, as flour, eggs, salt, etc., beaten together with some liquid, used in cookery.
- noun Flour and water made into paste; specifically, the paste used in sizing cloth.
- To beat upon or against; strike with repeated blows; pound violently, as with the fist, a hammer or bludgeon, a battering-ram, cannon-shot, etc.: as, to
batter a door for admittance; to batter the walls of a city (with or without effect). - To bruise, break, or shatter by beating; injure the substance of by blows; pound out of form or condition: as, to
batter a person's countenance; a battered wall or tower; to batter type (that is, bruise the face of it). - In forging, to spread outwardly, as the ends of a metal bar or rod, by hammering; upset.
- To act by beating or striking; use repeated blows; practise pounding: as, to
batter away at a door; to batter upon a wall; battering cannon. - Specifically, to attempt to breach an enemy's works by means of a battery mounted in the third parallel. To batter in breach, a sufficient number of guns should be employed to maintain a practically continuous fire, so as to prevent the enemy from repairing the damage, and to obtain the cumulative effect due to heavy firing against a single point. Breaching is sometimes accomplished by firing simultaneous or alternate volleys from two or more batteries.
- To paste together; cover with things pasted on: as, to
batter the walls with placards. - noun A heavy blow.
- noun In printing, a blur or defect in a sheet produced by battered type; a spot showing the broken state of the type.
- noun In ceramics, a mallet used to flatten out wet clay before molding. See
batting-block . - noun One who bats; especially, in base-ball and cricket, one who wields the bat; the batsman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Arch.) To slope gently backward.
- noun The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the
batsman . - noun A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
- noun Paste of clay or loam.
- noun (Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- transitive verb To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish.
- transitive verb To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
- transitive verb (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- noun A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who tries to hit the ball in a
sport likebaseball . - noun cricket A
batsman . - verb To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- verb To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- verb To defeat soundly; to
thrash - verb UK, slang To
intoxicate - noun A
beaten mixture offlour andliquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g.pancakes ,cake , oryorkshire pudding ) or tocoat food (e.g. fish) prior tofrying - noun A
binge , a heavy drinking session. - verb architecture To
slope (of walls, buildings etc.). - noun An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb strike violently and repeatedly
- noun a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- verb strike against forcefully
- verb make a dent or impression in
- noun (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
Etymologies
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126 The word batter comes from the French word battre which means to beat, a reference to beating or whisking in batter preparation.
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126 The word batter comes from the French word battre which means to beat, a reference to beating or whisking in batter preparation.
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He'll pick an opportune moment, of course, when the batter is adjusting his gloves and looking at the third base coach.
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One of the great things about the batter is that without gluten, there's no overbeating it, so it's great for kids to learn with too!
Wheatless, Not Sweet-Less! Sarah 2009
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Then it was just dry + wet, and into the oven went the fruit, veggie (cause you know that's what rhubarb is!) and whole grain batter-filled paper cups.
What Seymour Made! Sarah 2009
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There are fish 'n' chips where the batter is more than just a white goo lurking at the bottom of a batter casing and you can't use the chips to shave with.
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Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf pan and just give the pan a quick but gentle shake back and forth once to make sure the batter is even in the pan.
Jamie Schler: When Simple Banana Bread Becomes Exotic (a recipe) Jamie Schler 2010
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Gradually stir in AP flour until a loose batter is formed.
It's Baaack! Sarah 2009
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Scrape down the sides and make sure the batter is well blended.
Jamie Schler: When Simple Banana Bread Becomes Exotic (a recipe) Jamie Schler 2010
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That part was fairly simple, since all I had to do was remove a smaller portion of plain batter to flavour/colour with banana before making the large portion chocolate.
Finding My Marbles! Sarah 2009
chained_bear commented on the word batter
Inward and upward slope of an external wall.
August 24, 2008