verb

• (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
  "I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs."
• (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
  "Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0."
• (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
  "That cocktail will batter you!"
• (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

noun

• (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.
  "To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter."
• (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
  "When he went on a batter, he became very violent."
• (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
  "In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side."

verb

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

noun

• (architecture) An incline on the outer face of a built wall.