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Batting vs Battering - What's the difference?

batting | battering |

As nouns the difference between batting and battering

is that batting is (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc or batting can be the act of someone who bats while battering is a heavy beating.

As verbs the difference between batting and battering

is that batting is while battering is .

batting

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

  • (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • special cotton for surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * bat, batt

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

  • the act of someone who bats
    • the battings of her eyelashes

    Verb

    (head)

    • battering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy beating
  • A large defeat
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering .}}