1. Verb
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. Verb
To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
3. Verb
To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
4. Verb
A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
5. Verb
Paste of clay or loam.
6. Verb
A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
7. Noun
A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
8. Verb
To slope gently backward.
9. Noun
One who wields a bat; a batsman.
10. Noun
a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
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