Definitions for batters

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batters bat·ter

Spelling: [bat-er]

IPA: /ˈbæt ər/

Batters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in batters (aberstt).

Definitions for batters

noun

1. Printing. a damaged area on the face of type or plate. the resulting defect in print.
2. a mixture of flour, milk or water, eggs, etc., beaten together for use in cookery.
3. a player who swings a bat or whose turn it is to bat, as in baseball or cricket.
4. a backward and upward slope of the face of a wall or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to beat persistently or hard; pound repeatedly.
2. to damage by beating or hard usage:
3. to coat with batter.

verb (used without object)

1. to deal heavy, repeated blows; pound steadily:
2. (of the face of a wall or the like) to slope backward and upward.

Origin of batters

1300-50; Middle English bateren, probably Middle French, Old French batre to beat (see bate²), with the infinitive ending identified with Examples for batters

In the 13th inning, a Red Sox batter popped one down left field line and Jeter went to get it.

The batter must be very smooth when it is done, and without a single lump.

Every batter, it's a fastball for a strike or pop-up, then a change-up for a ground out.

Lou watched George Selkirk step into the batter's box for a few practice swings one afternoon.

"You've got to cure the batter, you must take your time," Barber tells us.

Then mix it gradually with cold water till it becomes a batter.

Have ready in a frying-pan some lard and batter mixed, and make it boil.

With the bases loaded, the ultimately rational Palmer always throws every pitch at a corner--even with three balls on the batter.

And he was both to batter it down, for he still had the gambler's faith in his luck.

He put his whole will into the assertion of guilt, to batter down the man's resistance.