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Batter v.2. World English Historical Dictionary

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Batter v.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Batter v.2 Arch. [Of doubtful origin: hardly connected with preceding; can it be related to F. abattre to beat down, throw down?]

1   1.  intr. Of walls, etc.: To incline from the perpendicular, so as to have a receding slope.

2 1546.  Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., III. x. 77 a. Dædalus … first inuented the plomline, whereby the Euenes of the Squares bee tried whether they batter or hang ouer.

3 1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 157. The side … of a Wall … that bulges from its bottom or Foundation, is said to Batter, or hang over the Foundation.

4 1793.  Rennie, in Smiles, Engineers, II. 208. Made five feet thick at the base next to the bridge, and four feet thick at the top, battering one-fifth of their height in a curvilinear form.

5 1845.  Gloss. Gothic Archit., I. 48. Wharf walls, and walls built to support embankments and fortifications, generally batter.

6   2.  trans. ‘To give (a wall) in building it, an inclination inwards.’ Jamieson.

7 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XV. xxii. (1495), 497. A toure in Babilon … whyche conteynyth at heyghte two lewges batryd in brede. [The sense is here doubtful].

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