battering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: battering	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for battering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
battering n the act of subjecting to strong attack [syn: battering, banging]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Batter \Bat"ter\ (b[acr]t"t[etil]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Battered} (-t[etil]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Battering}.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. {Abate}, {Bate} to abate.] 1. 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. 2. To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. [bd]Each battered jade.[b8] --Pope. 3. (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.