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Definition of batter:

  • (verb) strike violently and repeatedly
  • (noun) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid | a heavy drinking session | a ballplayer who is batting

Sentence Examples:

A pint of cranberries stirred into a quart of batter, made like a batter pudding, but very little stiffer, is very nice, eaten with sweet sauce.

A young woman was stooping before the open door, and she was pouring something from a white earthen bowl into a battered tin pan.

Cut the beetroot into small dice, make a batter with the milk, meal, and egg, mix the beet with it, adding seasoning to taste.

The mud is everywhere; the horses have trodden it to slime in many places, in others the feet of the soldiers have transformed it to batter.

"Hello, Conway," Parker greeted him, as the old contractor came into the dining room and hung his battered old hat on a wall peg.

I had warmed to his battered old hat at sight of it, and he was as solicitous for my welfare as if we were blood brothers.

The miners, busy constructing a new moat just within the battered Peter Gate, looked, as they glided about, more like mountain-gnomes than human beings.

An animal could glide through these channels, but a man must batter his way through the stockade of dense grass that spread out above.

The walls would have offered very little resistance to a battering train, but were quite strong enough to keep the herdsmen of the Grampians in awe.

A pile of freight cars lodged at the corner of the building and the breakwater thus formed checked the onslaught of floating battering rams.

A gang had torn off the heavy rail from the hitching-post on the outside of the square, and were going to use it as a battering-ram.

He stopped short in his tracks, and threw his battered old felt hat defiantly full into the face of the destruction hanging over him.

Let it stand until it is lukewarm; then add a well-beaten egg, a quarter of a yeast-cake dissolved, and enough gluten to make a soft batter.

Millet fiddled with several pipes in a rack beside his chair, selected one, and began filling it with rough-cut tobacco from a battered canister.

The theologians wanted to batter them down, but it would have meant a lot of hard work, and they had been leading sedentary lives.

We were waiting patiently for him to die, when suddenly the head went into position, like a Roman battering ram, and down he came upon us.

On getting alongside it was found that she was an American ship, and though terribly battered she was still holding on to her anchors.

A hand clutched his shirt collar and yanked him back, and he went striking with the club as he sprawled beside a battered friend.

Because the lightness of cake depends upon bubbles of air or gas which in the course of time collapse, cake batter should be baked as soon as mixed.

Set a sponge the evening before with a pint of milk, a gill of yeast, a little salt, and flour enough to make a thick batter.

Then he rummaged amongst the contents of a battered cardboard box for the best of his poems, which he had promised to lend Madge.

Heat the butter a little more than blood-warm; beat the jelly to a smooth batter and add gradually the butter, the lemon, and nutmeg.

He therefore began by restoring order, and it was thus he won us, poor tired wayfarers that we were, battered by many a storm!

The next morning, at daybreak, the deep boom of a gun announced to the city that the great battering cannon had begun their work.

Lieutenant Hall had no wish to be the speaker, but the fluent Dickson, battered and water-soaked, minutely described the experience of the boat's company.

Sift together Gold Medal Flour, sugar, salt, and powder; add milk, and mix into smooth batter trifle stiffer than for griddle cakes.

He sees what he wants all right, but his only idea of getting it is to bash at everything in his way with a battering ram.

Tolerance does not use the battering-ram of argument or the club of sarcasm, or the rapier of ridicule, in discussing the weakness or wrongs of individuals.

His battered hat and collar were derisively thrown after him, as he bitterly explained to the police that he was not drunk and disorderly.

Beat five eggs very light, and stir them gradually into the other ingredients; adding, by degrees, sufficient sifted flour to make a thick batter.

The mist cleared further, and the gate gave in under the blows of an improvised battering-ram, covered by showers of arrows from short range.

The mysterious batter did not wait for another one, but he picked that one out and smashed it hard enough to make a dent in it.

Dick knew he was up against the crack batter of the varsity, and his first inclination was not to attempt to strike Henderson out.

The city was assailed with battering-rams, whilst flaming balls of pitch and naphtha were thrown over the walls and set fire to the houses.

"I really wanted to see you, Captain," she told him, her battered old shoes bringing her fully into the room with little mincing steps.

His helmet was battered by the many spears and swords that had struck upon it, and his shield bristled with broken arrows.

They tried it at first from the sea, but, being well battered, retired and disembarked six hundred men by night to make a land-attack.

I thought of him afterward when an angry crowd was battering at the doors of one of the salons where the royalties were having refreshments.

Mix a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoon of soda in a cup of flour, sift it into the cake batter and stir lightly.

Once she kept a grand cavalier waiting in her reception chamber for half an hour while she battered in vain the candy man's tough philosophy.

Excellent conditions of ice and weather also contributed, not to mention the fact that the exhilaration of success lent wings to our sorely battered feet.

The said helmet was grievously battered, and the nose-piece was awry as if from some fierce blow, but there was no scar on the skin.

The snow clouds were like dense walls, and he, like a child, in puny effort wildly trying to batter them down to gain his freedom.

Now think, compute how many it requires of battered brains, of breasts shattered by grape-shot, to cover with blood, "literally," half a mile of boulevards.

I stood now beside the city, and as I bent over it, I could see by the battered houses the havoc the bombardment had caused.

Rushing at the ship like a battering-ram, he hit her fair on the weather bow and stove it in, after which he dived and disappeared.

In a few moments our own door was battered down by the barbarians, and Jen-ken, torch in hand, made his appearance, claiming us as prisoners.

"I will not stir another yard," said the voice, determinedly; "open your door, or I will batter it down with the hilt of my sword."

They were powerful enough to defy a battering ram, fitted with enormous locks and heavy bars that could be slipped into the massive iron receptacles.

Mistress Harding cried, and Mark replied, quietly, as if it was of no especial consequence: "The Frenchmen have come, and are battering down the gate."

Above the glass, still littered with cards and photographs, there hung an oar and underneath, on either side, stood a pair of battered silver cups.

Stir this mixture into a cupful of light white bread sponge, and add enough Graham flour to make a stiff batter, or very thin dough.

Very quickly stir into the flour enough of the oyster liquor to make a batter, and fry just as any pancake; serve hot with butter.

The battering of the waves against the sides disturbed not his devout slumbers; the creaking of the vessel's timbers spoiled not his repose.

The country road spun before him, a dusty white ribbon, along which the dry battered corn rattled as if in a surge of torrid wind.

Before being put into the pan they are usually highly seasoned with cayenne; and after being again closed, are dipped into a rich light batter.

Do not cover them with batter, but dredge them with just flour enough to absorb all moisture, then cover them with boiling lard.

Have ready a sufficiency of batter, made in the proportion of the yolk of one egg to a large table-spoonful of milk, and a tea-spoonful of flour.

Worn and battered by the friction of the waves, it still retained its color and markings sufficiently distinct to admit of a tolerably accurate delineation.

Hester brought two more small hand lamps, and after another trip to the kitchen brought six candles and six battered but usable candlesticks.

Yes, and now he made sure of it, because who else would be wearing that well-known khaki uniform with the equally familiar battered campaign hats?

In the twinkling of an eye, his hat is battered down, and amidst kicks, cuffs, and bustling, he is ejected from the temple of Mammon.

Make a batter of two whipped eggs, a cupful of milk, quarter teaspoonful soda, a half teaspoonful cream tartar, and half a cup of flour.

More planes of every type and from Allied as well as American sources were slated to reinforce and replace the battered and battle-weary Cactus veterans.

The iron rings, the battered surface, the crack which has all but rent its solid mass asunder, bear witness to its long migrations.

After the mess house had been battered by our heavy guns, recourse was once more had to the bayonet, which was never known to fail.

There is a poem on a captured trench that opens with a brief word-picture of the scene, the squalor, the battered parapet, the dead men.

A slight artillery row was in progress now, our gunners were shelling the enemy's trenches and the enemy were at work battering in our parapets.

Make three teaspoonfuls of flour into a thin batter, and stir it into a tea-cup of boiling water in a sauce-pan, and let it boil five minutes.

A quaint, battered, old obelisk of stone, surrounded by an iron railing, stands in what is called the Market Place, and serves as a sign-post.

It was battered, broken, and useless, and one side was caved in until it resembled a big, toothless mouth grinning at him in sardonic glee.

Coast guards hardly knew her when she staggered into port this afternoon, battered and torn, a leaking scarecrow of her former trim self.

He was about seventy years of age, wore a threadbare frock coat, baggy trousers, disreputable shoes, and a battered silk hat of ancient, bell-shaped pattern.

A small slice of apple, sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, placed on top the muffin batter before baking, makes a delicious variation of the recipe.

They are not unlikely to have been filled in with earth to increase their power of resistance when the castle was battered from the churchyard.

I had been afraid our battering of the beast would set her teeth on edge; but she leaned forward and spat invective into its face.

He squarely faced the future, and, with his will like his father's, set dogged and unconquerable energy to battering at the obstacles before him.

He shuffled on to the far end of the room, his leer a little arrogant, a certain arrogance, too, in the tilt of his battered hat.

When lukewarm, add one fourth of a cup full of liquid yeast, and sufficient flour to make a batter thick enough to drop from the spoon.

Start the bread by making a rather thick batter with one cupful of warm water, one teaspoonful of the prepared yeast, and white flour.

I can't see the value of that idiotic old battered-up copper pail you cherish so tenderly, but that's because I lack the true, heaven-born artist's soul.

Under the skylight in the roof, which showed nothing but an oblong piece of dull gray sky, there was a battered old red footstool.

Out from her snarl of storm-blown hair, tattered, battered by wind and rain, she peered up suddenly with her first frowning sign of self-consciousness.

The poet represents Satan as an angel, fallen indeed, and sadly battered by his fall, yet still an archangel glorious for strength and beauty.

The window-panes were battered by the sleet; the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.

Cara started down the path and the man walked beside her as far as the battered gate which hung awry from its broken columns.

On top of the house wall was a battered stone coping, which, as Smith and Helen paused, gave a sudden lurch and seemed about to fall.

The gate of the surrounding stone wall was battered off the hinges, the front door of the house was open, the garden was trampled.

He wore a dismally battered cocked hat which was a size too large for him, and came down to his ears over his closely cropped hair.

The water smashed and battered us, whirled us along relentlessly, lashed us in heavy sprays; yet with closed eyes and thudding hearts we waited.

At daybreak, I came abruptly fully awake with the sound of crashing echoing in my ears, a battering sound that seemed to come from the basement.

Under the skylight in the roof, which showed nothing but an oblong piece of dull gray sky, there was a battered old red footstool.

He sat limply down on the top of the trunk, and fumbling in his hip pocket drew forth a bent and battered cigarette case.

He removed his battered hat, and passed it once or twice before his eyes, as he steadied himself, but unsuccessfully, by the back of a chair.

Put the light and dark batter by alternate spoonfuls in pans well buttered and papered, let rise and bake the same as spice cake.

The old castle, battered by war and the elements, is a striking ruin, the precipitous rock on which it stands being a natural fortress.

Towards midnight, when the tide begins to ebb, the battered war ships slip their cables and sail out into the darkness with their dead.

Bear Cat's breathing was a hoarse and strangling agony, but his fists battered like unremitting flails against the ribs and kidneys of his antagonist.

Ruthlessly her quick eyes traveled down the full length of her scant, rough skirt to the stubbed toes of her battered brown riding boots.

When we had finished we gave the rest of the batter to the men, who fried it all in one huge pancake, about two inches thick.