English English Dictionary

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.