Batter word meaning and definition

[noun] a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon
[noun] a ballplayer who is batting
[verb] make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat"
[verb] strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
[verb] strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"

\Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Battered} (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Battering}.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. {Abate}, {Bate} to abate.] 1. 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. 2. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. ``Each battered jade.'' --Pope. 3. (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
\Bat"ter\, n. [OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See {Batter}, v. t.] 1. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. --King. 2. Paste of clay or loam. --Holland. 3. (Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
\Bat"ter\, n. A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. {Batter rule}, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.
\Bat"ter\, v. i. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.
\Bat"ter\, n. One who wields a bat; a batsman.

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