Noun: batter
| Singular | batter |
| Plural | batters |
Sample Sentences
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To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.
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When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
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The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks] [1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:]
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In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side. [1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer, page 251:]
Nouns inflected like batter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture. See: Middle English Nouns '
bature'.
Verbs referencing "batter"
Russian Nouns
беттер.