v. t. | 1. | |
| 1. | 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. |
| 2. | To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. |
| 3. | (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. |
n. | 1. | A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. |
| 2. | Paste of clay or loam. |
| 3. | (Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. |
| 1. | A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. |
v. i. | 1. | (Arch.) To slope gently backward. |
n. | 1. | The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman. |