Batter
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Batter may refer to:
- Batter (cooking)Batter (cooking)Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or eggs used to prepare various foods. Often a leavening agent such as baking powder is included to aerate and fluff up the batter as it cooks, or the mixture may be naturally fermented for this purpose...
- Batter (baseball)
- BatterBatting (cricket)In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
, (cricket) - To hit or strike a person, as in committing the crime of batteryBattery (crime)Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault which is the fear of such contact.In the United States, criminal battery, or simply battery, is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact...
- To hit or strike a person, as in committing the tort of batteryBattery (tort)At common law, battery is the tort of intentionally and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them . Unlike assault, battery involves an actual contact...
, a common-law offense - Grade (slope) (sometimes also spelled "battre")
- Batter, an area of damaged type in printed matter.
- Batter head, on a snare drum, the head that is struck
- Battered (band) a Norwegian thrash metal band.