battering
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
batter1
▶verb
- 1 strike repeatedly with hard blows.
■ subject (one's spouse, partner, or child) to repeated violence and assault.
- 2 (usu. as noun battering) criticize severely or defeat heavily.
– derivatives
batterer noun.
batterer noun.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
batter2
▶noun a mixture of flour, egg, and milk or water, used for making pancakes or coating food before frying.
■ N. Amer. a mixture of ingredients for a cake.
– origin ME: from OFr. bateure ‘the action of beating’, from batre ‘to beat’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
batter3
▶noun a player who bats in baseball.
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batter4
▶verb (of a wall) slope backwards from the perpendicular. ▶noun a backwards slope in a wall.
– origin C16: of unknown origin.
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