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