batter > define

noun

• Baseball) a ballplayer who is batting.
  • synonyms: hitter, slugger, batsman
• A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking.

verb

• Strike against forcefully.
  • usage: "Winds buffeted the tent"
  • synonyms: buffet, knock about
• Strike violently and repeatedly.
  • usage: "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
  • synonyms: clobber, baste
• Make a dent or impression in.
  • usage: "dinge a soft hat"
  • synonyms: dinge

• (v.t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
• (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
• (v.t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
• (v.t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
• (n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.
• (v.t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
• (v.i.) To slope gently backward.
• (v.t.) Paste of clay or loam.
• (v.t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.