(cooking, countable, uncountable) 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.

(countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.

A paste of clay or loam.

(countable, 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.

(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

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

(figurative) 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.

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