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batter

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1. batter - Noun

2. batter - Verb

Meaning

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.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Paste of clay or loam.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

To slope gently backward.

One who wields a bat; a batsman.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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She clobbered the man who tried to attack her Source: Internet

dinge a soft hat Source: Internet

Winds buffeted the tent Source: Internet

A batter is only credited with an at bat if that plate appearance does not have one of the results enumerated below. Source: Internet

A batter who hits the ball into the field of play must drop the bat and begin running toward first base, at which point the player is referred to as a runner (or, until the play is over, a batter-runner). Source: Internet

A batter who draws a base on balls is commonly said to have been "walked" by the pitcher. Source: Internet

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