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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
batter
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a storm lashes/batters a placeliterary
▪ Fierce storms lashed the coastline.
battered fish (=covered in a mixture of flour and water, and then fried)
▪ The restaurant is well-known for its battered fish dishes.
battering ram
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
▪ If I had screamed or tried to escape he would have battered me to death.
▪ Steam hammers, in short, tended to batter themselves to death.
▪ This time he battered Mr Simpson to death.
▪ Two days later the bishop was battered to death in his home.
▪ I'd seen it too and it hadn't told me anything except that Moira was battered to death with a tenor sax.
▪ He'd been battered to death.
▪ Park manager Paul Weston said the rabbits had apparently been battered to death.
▪ Mr Davidson was battered to death while his daughter's eye was pierced with a knitting needle.
door
▪ Over the debris of the tower and the crushed bodies they battered the doors with it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
battered woman/wife/husband/baby etc
▪ It was not intended to suggest that these were battered wives.
▪ Moreover, battered women often wind up dropping the charges as reconciliation with the abuser.
▪ Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
▪ The church has already erred on this side in the counsel it has given battered women.
▪ The groups most adamant about denying help to battered women were the conservative fundamentalists and some orders of Catholicism.
▪ The person on call made us a cup of tea - battered wives' homes are the greatest!
▪ They took us to the police station and then to a battered women's house at about 2 a.m.
▪ We have often been tempted to abandon this task; then another battered woman would come into our lived.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Each year, perhaps 4 million women are battered by their husbands.
▪ His campaign team was battered by a humiliating defeat in Iowa.
▪ Teachers suspect that the child is being battered regularly by his parents.
▪ The jury heard how Thompson had been maddened by what he saw and battered his wife to death.
▪ There were reports of soldiers battering prisoners with their rifles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Michael Pearson, 19, of Leeds, battered 19-year-old Dean Fisher to death after meeting him in a pub.
▪ The man she was living with was battering her, Lee-Cruz said, and she called the police.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pour
▪ Stir until just mixed; do not overmix. Pour batter into heated skillet.
▪ Add egg, cover and whirl an additional minute. Pour batter into large bowl.
▪ Add dry ingredients to persimmon mixture and mix well. Pour batter into buttered shallow 3-quart baking dish.
▪ By hand, stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Pour batter into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan.
▪ Stir in remaining ingredients. Pour batter into two 8-inch round, greased and lightly floured pans.
▪ Add onions and shortening to batter and stir to blend. Pour batter into skillet.
prepare
▪ Let stand while preparing cake batter.
▪ Place skillet in oven while preparing batter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add the flour, semolina and currants and stir into the batter with a wooden spoon.
▪ Hell, for Eloise, could well turn out to be full of fish batter, sliced potatoes and boiling fat.
▪ I could see his fingers working signals behind the mitt so intensely the batter had to have seen too.
▪ Keep away from the fried batter and won-ton pastry dishes and ask for steamed or boiled rice.
▪ Nick has become as consistent as any batter in the Championship.
▪ Stir batter down and bake cakes on a lightly greased griddle, using about cup batter per pancake.
▪ The next batter was pinch-hitter Jeffrey Hammonds.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
batter

Batsman \Bats"man\, n.; pl. Batsmen. The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
batter

"strike repeatedly, beat violently and rapidly," early 14c., from Old French batre "to beat, strike" (11c., Modern French battre "to beat, to strike"), from Latin battuere "to beat, strike," an old word in Latin, but almost certainly borrowed from Gaulish, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (cognates: Welsh bathu "beat;" Old English beadu "battle," beatan "to beat," bytl "hammer, mallet"). Began to be widely used 1962 in reference to domestic abuse. Related: Battered; battering. Battering-ram is an ancient weapon (Latin aries), but the word attested only from 1610s.

batter

"flour, eggs, and milk beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).

Wiktionary
batter

Etymology 1 vb. 1 to hit or strike violently and repeatedly. 2 to coat with batter (the food ingredient). 3 to defeat soundly; to thrash 4 (context UK slang usually in the passive English) To intoxicate 5 (context metalworking English) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. Etymology 2

n. 1 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 2 A binge, a heavy drinking session. 3 A paste of clay or loam. 4 (context printing English) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. Etymology 3

n. An incline on the outer face of a built wall. vb. (context architecture English) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.). Etymology 4

n. (context baseball English) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

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WordNet
batter

  1. n. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting [syn: hitter, slugger, batsman]

  2. a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

batter

  1. v. strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet, knock about]

  2. strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste]

  3. make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat" [syn: dinge]

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Wikipedia
Batter

Batter or batters may refer to:

  • Batter (cooking)
  • Batter (baseball)
  • Batter (cricket) or batsman
  • Batter (drum), a part of a snare drum
  • Batter (crime)
  • Batter (tort)
  • BATTeRS, a Japanese asteroid tracking survey
  • Batter (walls), an intentional slope of walls or earthworks.
Batter (walls)

Batter in construction is a receding slope of a wall, structure, or earthwork. A wall sloping in the opposite direction is said to overhang. The term is used with buildings and non-building structures to identify when a wall is intentionally built with an inward slope. A battered corner is an architectural feature using batters. A batter is sometimes used in foundations, retaining walls, dry stone walls, dams, lighthouses, and fortifications.

The batter angle is typically described as a ratio of the offset and height or a degree angle.

Batter (cooking)

Batter is a liquid mixture of one or more flours made with ground grains or soaked grains that are ground. Batters are used to prepare various foods. The word batter comes from the old French word battre which means to beat, as many batters require vigorous beating or whisking in their preparation.

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Usage examples of "batter".

Martin Maeder, executive vice president in charge of private banking, and last, close behind but a continent apart, an unknown gentleman, tall and reed thin, clutching a battered leather briefcase.

As further fists were thrown and mighty oaths given voice, as bargee belaboured bargee and Jack Tar battered Jack Tar, pure-gatherer struck pure-gatherer, and a wandering bishop who was in the wrong pub punched Popeye the sailor man, Will crawled away to take his leave in the manner known as hurried.

The Baroness showed no surprise, but wondered whether the Princess might not have to lunch, and dine too, on some nauseous little mess brought to her on a battered brass tray.

He paced, ignoring the battering sounds of compies on the other side of the wall.

Lugging sonic battering rams, the new penetration team--five times the size of the previous squad--rushed up to the barricaded doors on the quiet side of the sprawling facility, choosing to enter through wings less likely to be occupied by the murderous compies.

Catching them off guard, she smashed the narrow gate open wider with the battering ram of her mind.

With the aid of Hendel, the giant borderman began to roll the rounded battering ram sideways toward the wedge of Gnomes and the closed doors to the chamber beyond, the monstrous roller gathering speed and power with each revolution as it thundered toward the hapless guards.

At the rim of the bluff, a detachment of heavily armored Rock Trolls pushed forward a ponderous, mobile battering ram, shielded from the top and sides by a broad canopy of sheet iron.

The bar alone would not be enough to stand against the massive battering ram.

The shattering thrusts of the massive battering ram continued to sake the great wall as Balinor and Durin faced each other across the little room.

Despite the devastating barrage concentrated against the men of the Border Legion by the lines of Gnome archers below the bluff, the valiant defenders managed to cut away at the Trolls that manned the great battering ram before the weakened gates.

Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.

But the T-38 kept right on, battering its way into increasingly disturbed air.

Massive earthquakes had occurred in Turkey, Chile and elsewhere, many of them battering communities already devastated by the effects of the Tide.

The yelling at the door was growing intense, and the first hints of organized battering were detectable.