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BAT'TER, v.t. [L. batuo, to beat. See Beat.]
BAT'TER, v.i. To swell, bulge or stand out, as a timber or side of a wall from its foundation.
BAT'TER, n. [from beat or batter.] A mixture of several ingredients, as flour, eggs, salt, &c., beaten together with some liquor, used in cookery.
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.
"Each battered jade." Pope. 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.
King. Paste of clay or loam.
Holland. 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.
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. To slope
gently backward.
One who wields a bat; a
batsman.
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