Batter

1. n. One who wields a bat; a batsman.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
4. v. t. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
5. v. t. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
6. v. t. Paste of clay or loam.
7. v. t. A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
8. n. A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
9. v. i. To slope gently backward.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.