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Batter is a related term of cane.


As a verb batter

is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly or batter can be (architecture) to slope (of walls, buildings etc).

As a noun 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.

As a proper noun cane is

(linguistics).

batter

English

(wikipedia batter)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
  • He battered his wife with a walking stick.
  • to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
  • I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  • to defeat soundly; to thrash
  • Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  • (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate
  • That cocktails will batter you!
    I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
  • (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter .
  • A binge, a heavy drinking session.
  • When he went on a batter , he became very violent.
  • A paste of clay or loam.
  • (Holland)
  • (printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
  • Etymology 3

    .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
  • Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.

    Etymology 4

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
  • The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
    Synonyms
    * (baseball) (l)

    Anagrams

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    cane

    English

    Noun

  • To do with a plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane.
  • # (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
  • # (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
  • # (uncountable) Sugar cane.
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , chapter=7, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane , and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}
  • # (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  • The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.
  • # (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
  • # (uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
  • # A lance or dart made of cane.
  • #* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane .
  • A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.
  • # (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
  • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}
  • #* , chapter=10
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
  • # (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
  • # (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
  • (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , chapter=1, title= The China Governess , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
  • A local European measure of length; the canna.
  • Synonyms

    * (the slender flexible stem of a plant such as bamboo) stem, stalk; (of a tree) trunk * (the plant itself) reed * (sugar cane) molasses cane * switch, rod * (corporal punishment by beating with a cane) the cane, a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts * (strong short staff used for support during walking) staff, walking stick * (a long rod often collapsible) white cane, blind man's cane

    Derived terms

    * bamboo cane * blind man's cane * cane knife * cane rat * cane sugar * cane toad * caneworking * floricane * primocane * sugar cane * walking cane * white cane

    Verb

    (can)
  • To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  • (British, New Zealand, slang) To destroy.
  • (British, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
  • (UK, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
  • Don't hit me with that. It really canes !
    Mate, my legs cane !
  • To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
  • to cane chairs

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