batter1
v.
- strike repeatedly with hard blows.
▸subject (one's spouse, partner, or child) to repeated violence and assault.
-
[usu. as noun battering]
criticize severely or defeat heavily.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: from OFr. batre ‘to beat’ (from L. battuere) + -er4.
batter2
n.
a mixture of flour, egg, and milk or water, used for making pancakes or coating food before frying.
▸N. Amer. a mixture of ingredients for a cake.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. bateure ‘the action of beating’, from batre ‘to beat’.
batter3
n.
a player who bats in baseball.
batter4
v.
(of a wall) slope backwards from the perpendicular.
n.
a backwards slope in a wall.
Etymology
C16: of unknown origin.