Batter \Bat"ter\, n. [OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See {Batter}, v. t.] 1. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. --King.
2. Paste of clay or loam. --Holland.
3. (Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Batter \Bat"ter\, n. 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.
Batter \Bat"ter\, v. i. (Arch.) To slope gently backward.
Batter \Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), n. The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the {batsman}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Batter \Bat"ter\ (b[a^]t"t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Battered} (b[a^]t"t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Battering}.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. {Abate}, {Bate} to abate.] 1. 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. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. ``Each battered jade.'' --Pope.
3. (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Batsman \Bats"man\, n.; pl. {Batsmen}. The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the {batter}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
A rush of foreign investment, with a big dose of imported machinery, could batter Hungary's balance of payments and spur further price increases.
And even the mere prospect of recession has been known to batter stock prices, housing, employment, tax receipts, confidence and more.
Typhoon Sarah continued to batter Taiwan today, leaving seven people dead and eight missing as heavy rains triggered landslides, flooded crops and paralyzed transportation, officials said.
Beat with your hand for about one minute to make a thick batter.
Mr. Kocur (pronounced KOHsur) is a big bruiser of a man whose main function is unique to the North American version of his sport: not to score goals, steal the puck or make deft passes, but to batter and intimidate the foe.
Flash forward five years: The inn is a hazard on the 14th fairway of the hotel's golf course, and, as golf balls batter the inn's clapboards, Dick's wife Joanna, (Mary Frann) scurries about in black wig and kimono.
Japanese unemployment rose to a record, seasonally adjusted 3% of the labor force in January as the strong yen continued to batter the economy, the statistics bureau of the prime minister's office said.
"I feel as though I'm beating batter and I'm going to cook it on a wood stove while everyone else can just pop it in the microwave oven," she said.
Two white men pleaded innocent to charges that they helped batter down the door of a black family's home, yelled racial slurs and hurled cinder blocks before they were driven away at knifepoint.
"There are dozens and hundreds of teachers around this state that administer corporal punishment in a way that does not batter children," Konicki said.
The Boston Brownie Co. alleges McGlynn Bakeries of Eden Prairie, Minn., took the batter recipes for Boston Brownies and marketed them, with a few minor changes, under the name Classic Brownie Batter.
The food is stock Venetian which does not mean desperately exciting: spaghetti with cuttle fish; fritto misto, a collection of shrimps, Dublin Bay prawns and squid rings in batter, for example.
Mr. Thomson, a tall, Scottish-born, right-hand hitter, stepped into the batter's box.
Yastrzemski, the American League's only batter to compile 3,000 hits and 400-plus home runs, received 423 votes.
On Wednesday, traders said formerly resilient electrical makers reeled from speculation the dollar's fall toward the 140.00 yen resistance level foreshadowed a renewed bout of "high yen" likely to batter the overseas performance of these companies.
That gel is then mixed with more of the flour to produce a batter for bread.
The batter piles are a set of two diagonal concrete pilings that come together like an A-frame.
McGlynn's frozen products division manufactures and markets a line of frozen dough, batter and frozen pre-baked products, danish and puff pastries, muffins and cookies.
Floods frequently batter the subcontinent when the summer monsoons begin in late June.
Taken from the Chinese word for bread, pow is a ball of fluffy dough with a savoury or sweet filling. Vendors selling batter balls often stand in a line together.
If they don't, the batter gets two points.
Johnny Carson's answer: rugs, fish batter and savings-and-loan executives.
Then the Bayside pitcher walked the batter.
Last December, Katleman discovered the Classic Brownie Batters in a McGlynn catalogue, which she saw in the offices of another batter maker.
He would bully, bruise and batter others in his determination to make his point.' General Sir Edward Spears, who knew Churchill during the first world war, saw a different fault.
Today's 'Screen Two' is Sin Bin in which Pete Postlethwaite plays a nurse in a mental hospital who sees a colleague batter one of the patients to death.
Rules are also being considered to require all new airliner models to undergo pressurized tests on a sample aircraft that would batter the fuselage with the equivalent of two lifetimes of takeoffs and landings.
Still, some antitrust lawyers speculate that the FTC may be concerned about what Intel's critics say is the company's pattern of using the courts to batter down potential competitors.
Commercials for carry-out chicken and non-gritty laxative and a dishwasher liquid that can miraculously clean hardened pancake batter from a chandelier.
A pitcher achieves a perfect game by allowing no batter to reach base.