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