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batter

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat +‎ -er (frequentative suffix).

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batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
    The firemen battered down the door.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:
      The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
      That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
      Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.
    • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, pages 56–57:
      The journey is worth an article in itself, but all I can give is a flavour of a railway which traverses a bleak but dramatic coastline that's regularly battered by the elements - especially around Parton, where the line is constantly threatened by the sea.
  2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
    I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  3. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
    Synonym: thrash
    Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
    • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 June 2018:
      There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
  4. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
    Synonym: intoxicate
    That cocktail will batter you!
    I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
  5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  6. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.[1]
    • 1826, Thomas Beveridge, A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process...‎[1]:
      the bible mentioned in the oath emitted this day , by Andrew Murison , as the book and bible from whence the printed leaves , battered on the B. L. Coy's notes , now challenged as forged , are alleged to be taken
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  1. ^ Joseph Wright (editor). The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E. 1898.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.

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batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)

  1. (cooking, countable, uncountable) 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.
    To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.
  2. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
    Synonyms: bender, binge
    When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
  3. A paste of clay or loam.
  4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
    • 1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer, page 251:
      In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side.
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Etymology 3

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Unknown.

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batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

  1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

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batter (plural batters)

  1. (architecture) An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
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Etymology 4

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From bat +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

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batter (plural batters)

  1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
    Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
    The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
  2. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
  3. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
  4. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
    • 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo‎[2]:
      It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.
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  • “batter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Danish

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batter

  1. present of batte

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batter

  1. inflection of batteren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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batter

  1. (sports) to bat

Conjugation

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Conjugation of batter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple batter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple battant
/ba.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle batté
/ba.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present batte
/bat/ 		battes
/bat/ 		batte
/bat/ 		battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.te/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battait
/ba.tɛ/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battaient
/ba.tɛ/
past historic2 battai
/ba.te/ 		battas
/ba.ta/ 		batta
/ba.ta/ 		battâmes
/ba.tam/ 		battâtes
/ba.tat/ 		battèrent
/ba.tɛʁ/
future batterai
/ba.tʁe/ 		batteras
/ba.tʁa/ 		battera
/ba.tʁa/ 		batterons
/ba.tʁɔ̃/ 		batterez
/ba.tʁe/ 		batteront
/ba.tʁɔ̃/
conditional batterais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		batterais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		batterait
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		batterions
/ba.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		batteriez
/ba.tə.ʁje/ 		batteraient
/ba.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present batte
/bat/ 		battes
/bat/ 		batte
/bat/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect2 battasse
/ba.tas/ 		battasses
/ba.tas/ 		battât
/ba.ta/ 		battassions
/ba.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		battassiez
/ba.ta.sje/ 		battassent
/ba.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — batte
/bat/ 		— battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.te/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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batter (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of battere

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Etymology

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From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bitr.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbater/, [ˈbɑ.tɐ]

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batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)

  1. bitter

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Declension of batter
singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative hien ass batter si ass batter et ass batter si si(nn) batter
nominative /
accusative 		attributive and/or after determiner batteren batter battert batter
independent without determiner batteres batterer
dative after any declined word batteren batterer batteren batteren
as first declined word batterem batterem

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Etymology

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From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

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batter

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.

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batter (uncountable)

  1. A batter.
  2. A glue; paste.
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