batter

Definitions

1. 1.To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." Pope.
2. 2.(Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
3. 3.A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.
4. 4.Paste of clay or loam. Holland.
5. 5.(Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.To slope gently backward.
8. 8.One who wields a bat; a batsman.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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