Batter vs Battel - What's the difference?
batter | battel |
to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
to defeat soundly; to thrash
(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate
(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying
A binge, a heavy drinking session.
A paste of clay or loam.
(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
(obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
To make fertile.
* Ray
(UK, Oxford University) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
(UK, Oxford University, mostly, in the plural) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between batter and battel
is that batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly or batter can be (architecture) to slope (of walls, buildings etc) while battel is to make fertile.As nouns the difference between batter and battel
is that batter is a beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (eg pancakes, cake, or yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (eg fish) prior to frying or batter can be an incline on the outer face of a built wall or batter can be (baseball) the player attempting to hit the ball with a bat while battel is or battel can be (uk|oxford university|mostly|in the plural) provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them.As an adjective battel is
(obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive.batter
English
(wikipedia batter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He battered his wife with a walking stick.
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- That cocktails will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter .
- When he went on a batter , he became very violent.
- (Holland)
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.
Etymology 4
.Noun
(en noun)- The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
Synonyms
* (baseball) (l)Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----battel
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
Adjective
(en adjective)- A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. — Fairfax.
Verb
(battell)- To battel barren land.