Batter vs. Embankment

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Example: ‘The firemen battered down the door.’;

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

Example: ‘I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.’;

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

Example: ‘Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.’;

To intoxicate.

Example: ‘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.

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

(cooking) 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

Example: ‘pancake batter’; ‘To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.’;

A binge, a heavy drinking session.

Example: ‘When he went on a batter, he became very violent.’;

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.

Example: ‘The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.’;

The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

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.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

To slope gently backward.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Paste of clay or loam.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

strike against forcefully;

Example: ‘Winds buffeted the tent’;

strike violently and repeatedly;

Example: ‘She clobbered the man who tried to attack her’;

make a dent or impression in;

Example: ‘dinge a soft hat’;

a long mound of earth, stone, or similar material, usually built for purposes such as to hold back or store water, for protection from weather or enemies, or to support a road or railway.

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection