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Batten
- noun - a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
- furnish with battens; "batten ships"
- secure with battens; "batten down a ship's hatches"
- stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
Batter
- noun - (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting
- a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking
- Knocks about
- make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat"
- strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"
- strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
Battle
- noun - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
- an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition"
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
- battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget"
- fight
Battue
- noun - a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
- indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"
Baxter
- - A baker; originally, a female baker.
Beaten
- verb - avoid paying; "beat the subway fare"
- be a mystery or bewildering to;
- be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!"
- beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold"
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"
- glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us"
- hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe"
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm"
- make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drumme
Beater
- noun - a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
- an implement for beating
Beatty
- unknown - William Alfred (Bill) Beatty (1902-1972), writer and broadcaster, was born on 27 November 1902 at Paddington, Sydney, only son of James Joseph Beatty, waiter, and his wife Margaret, née Brazil, both Dublin born.
Beetle
- adjective - a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- beat with a beetle
- fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"