Definition of batters Batters
/bæˈtɚz/ - [baterz] -
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Wiktionary 
- batters (Noun)
Plural of batter.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: batters |
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| batter - (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | ||
| hitter, slugger, batsman | ||
| ballplayer, baseball player an athlete who plays baseball | ||
| baseball game, baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | ||
| bunter a batter who bunts | ||
| designated hitter a ballplayer who is designated to bat in place of the pitcher | ||
| pinch hitter (baseball) a substitute for the regular batter | ||
| switch-hitter a baseball player who can bat either right or left handed | ||
| batter - a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking | ||
| intermixture, concoction, mixture the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose; "his testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories" | ||
| pate a choux, pouf paste, puff batter batter for making light hollow cases to hold various fillings | ||
| pancake batter batter for making pancakes | ||
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Wiktionary
- batter (Noun)
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. - batter (Noun)
A binge, a heavy drinking session. - batter (Noun)
An incline on the outer face of a built wall. - batter (Noun)
The person who tries to hit the ball in a sport like baseball. - batter (Noun)
A batsman. - batter (Verb)
To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. - batter (Verb)
To coat with batter the food ingredient. - batter (Verb)
To defeat soundly; to thrash. - batter (Verb)
To intoxicate. - batter (Verb)
To flatten metal by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. - batter (Verb)
To slope of walls, buildings etc..
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- batter (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. - batter (v. t.)
To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. - batter (v. t.)
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. - batter (v. t.)
A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. - batter (v. t.)
Paste of clay or loam. - batter (v. t.)
A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. - batter (n.)
A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. - batter (v. i.)
To slope gently backward. - batter (n.)
One who wields a bat; a batsman.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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batter
To strike or hit somebody heavily and repeatedly. -
batter
(Baseball) One who comes up to bat.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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batter
bat′er, v.t. to beat with successive blows: to wear with beating or by use: to attack with artillery.—n. ingredients beaten along with some liquid into a paste: paste for sticking.—ns. Bat′tering-charge, the full charge of powder for a cannon; Bat′tering-ram, an ancient engine for battering down walls, consisting of a large beam with an iron head like that of a ram. [O. Fr. batre (Fr. battre), from the root of Bat.] -
batter
bat′ėr, n. the inclination of a wall from the perpendicular.—v.i. to slope backward from the perpendicular. [Perh. from Fr. battre, to beat down.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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batter
A cannonade of heavy ordnance, from the first or second parallel of intrenchment, against any fortress or works. To batter in breach implies a heavy cannonade of many pieces directed to one part of the revetment from the third parallel.
