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Beat thoroughly in a competition or fight
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batting
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball" wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: flutter ] have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" use a bat; "Who's batting?" beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sheets of cotton fiber," 1875, variant of obsolete bat "felted mass of fur, wool, etc.," from bat (n.1), on notion of "beaten" fabric.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In baseball , batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner , drive runners ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context sewing English) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc 2 special cotton for surgery. Etymology 2 n. the act of someone who bats vb. (present participle of bat English)
Usage examples of batting.
The general manager of a Rotisserie team measured his success by toting up batting averages, RBIs, stolen bases, and so on.
Through his batting helmet he heard muffled cheers from the Thurston Thrashers grandstand.
Tommy pulled off his batting helmet and shook out his long, black hair.
His right hand swatted the fist out of the way like a kitten batting at a ball of yam.
On the run and panting-hot, Akarr located Riker more by sound than by sight, batting giant leaves away from his face and ducking --at the very last moment--a huge sticky mess of an insect nest that seemed to materialize at eye level.
Billy hit and Sam would throw batting practice with no one there but Billy and the scouts.
Alderson has a clear memory from earlier that spring of 1990, of Billy Beane taking batting practice.
To ensure they never lost that lead, Alderson routinely reviewed the batting statistics of the teams, and leaned on managers whose teams were not walking.
It should be obvious that the purpose of an offense is not to compile a high batting average.
The girls he dropped in the sandbox beside the courts, Bitsy he asked to hit grounders at him off the batting tee.
Boggs in the batting cage during spring training, trying to learn whatever he could from the master.
Rice called him out in the clubhouse, in front of his teammates, and ridiculed him for having a batting average in the .
Past Scott Hatteberg and Greg Myers, the two lefties on the bench who had thought they had the night off, rushing back through the clubhouse to the batting cage to take some practice swings, in case they are asked to pinch-hit.
Scott Hatteberg running from the batting cage to the tunnel that leads to the Oakland dugout.
Behind him a hundred or more players in line slowly marched toward the slab of rubber which marked the batting position.