| batter | |
| 1. v. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly. | |
| The firemen battered down the door. | |
| 2. v. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient). | |
| I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs. | |
| 3. v. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash. | |
| Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0. | |
| 4. v. (slang) To intoxicate. | |
| That cocktails will batter you! | |
| I was battered last night on our pub crawl. | |
| 5. v. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. | |
| 6. s. (cooking) 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 | |
| pancake batter | |
| To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter. | |
| 7. s. A binge, a heavy drinking session. | |
| When he went on a batter, he became very violent. | |
| 8. s. A paste of clay or loam. | |
| 9. s. (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. | |
| 10. v. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.). | |
| 11. s. An incline on the outer face of a built wall. | |
| 12. s. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat. | |
| The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double. | |
| 13. s. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman. | |
