battitore
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From battere (“to beat”) + -tore (“-er”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
battitore m (plural battitori, feminine battitrice)
- (literally, rare) beater (one who beats)
- (hunting) beater (one who drives game towards the shooters)
- (baseball) batter
- (cricket) batsman
- (tennis, volleyball) server
- (skiing) one who operates a snow groomer
- (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) panel beater, (US) auto body mechanic
- (papermaking, historical) a worker who beats sheets in order to flatten and polish them
- (agriculture) thresher (one who threshes)
- (agriculture) the part of a threshing machine which handles the threshing of grain
- (agriculture) the part of a machine which detaches kernels from the corncob
- (military, obsolete) scout
- Synonym: esploratore
- (obsolete) doorknocker, knocker
- Synonym: battente
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- battitore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana