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Batter   /bˈætər/   Listen
Batter

verb
(past & past part. battered; pres. part. battering)
1.
Strike against forcefully.  Synonyms: buffet, knock about.
2.
Strike violently and repeatedly.  Synonyms: baste, clobber.
3.
Make a dent or impression in.  Synonym: dinge.
noun
1.
(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.  Synonyms: batsman, hitter, slugger.
2.
A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking.



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"Batter" Quotes from Famous Books



... not very heavy, but the batter wields it with considerable force. After the article has thus been approximately shaped, and the jiggerman has completed it, a mould-runner must carry the freshly modeled piece to the stove-room to be dried; and on his backward trip bring with ...
— The Story of Porcelain • Sara Ware Bassett
... to become skilful in baking. In the beginning they used hot stones on which to lay the lump of meal, or flour and water, or the batter. Then having learned about yeast, which "raised" the flour, that is, lifted it up, with gas and bubbles, they made real bread and cakes and baked them in the ovens which the men had made. When they put a slice of meat between upper and lower layers of ...
— Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks • William Elliot Griffis
... are led by custom and authority. Their inheritance is the traditionary wisdom of mankind, which they live upon as an infant on his estate, not understanding whence their support comes. It is dangerous to batter them with objections against the received moral law. You will overthrow them, not confirm them by the result of your reasonings: you will perplex their intellect, you will confound their good purpose, you will awaken their evil passions. Surely it is a more necessary ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.
... a good batter for the Chillicothe baseball team," suggested Chunky. "He'd be the only real batter in the nine. They could turn him loose on the umpire when they didn't need him on the diamond. Wouldn't it be funny to see some umpires kicked over ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico • Frank Gee Patchin
... is not the battering-ram, but an engine to cast stones.] Trepegett you expounde a ramme to batter walles. But the trepegete was the same that the magonell; for Chaucer calleth yt a trepegett or magonell; wherefore the trepegett and magonell being all one, and the magonell one instrumente to flynge or cast stones (asyoure ...
— Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes - 1865 edition • Francis Thynne


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