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Batting   /bˈætɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Batting  n.  
1.
The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
2.
Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.


verb
Bat  v. t. & v. i.  
1.
To bate or flutter, as a hawk. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To wink. (Local, U. S. & Prov Eng.)


Bat  v. t.  (past & past part. batted; pres. part. batting)  To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.


Bat  v. i.  To use a bat, as in a game of baseball; when used with a numerical postmodifier it indicates a baseball player's performance (as a decimal) at bat; as, he batted.270 in 1993 (i.e. he got safe hits in 27 percent of his official turns at bat).





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"Batting" Quotes from Famous Books



... but it looks like a big night to-night. Two in an hour! And eighteen more ships and eight destroyers to pick from yet! If he starts off like that, what d'y' s'pose he'll be batting ...
— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly
... embarrassed. He looked at Mr Sheppherd, and with difficulty restrained himself from standing on one leg and twiddling his fingers. At one period of his career, before the influence of his uncle Henry had placed him in the London and Suburban Bank, Owen had been an actor. On the strength of a batting average of thirty-three point nought seven for Middlesex, he had been engaged by the astute musical-comedy impresario to whom the idea first occurred that, if you have got to have young men to chant 'We are merry and gay, tra-la, for this is Bohemia,' in the Artists' ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... times, him a-reaching fur my throat, and a-pounding me with his fists, but me a-taking the licks and keeping holt. And I had a mighty contented time fur a few minutes there on top of Hank, chuckling to myself, and batting him one every now and then fur luck, and trying to make him holler it's enough. But Hank is stubborn and he won't holler. And purty soon I thinks, what am I going to do? Fur Hank will be so mad when I let ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... or pennyroyal on pieces of cotton-batting scattered about in the places where ants appear will drive them away. Saturating the nests with coal-oil will destroy them. Food which attracts ants should be removed from places which they are ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools • Ministry of Education Ontario
... lunch hour rarely, if ever, turned toward business, except as said before, when it dealt with underpaid services. In the spring and summer it was invariably of baseball, and scores of young men knew the batting averages of the different players and the standing of the clubs with far greater accuracy than they knew the standing or the discounts of the customers of their employers. In the winter the talk was all of dancing, ...
— A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward Bok


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