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Definition of Batting

1. Noun. (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base.

2. Noun. Stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber.

Definition of Batting

1. n. The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.

Definition of Batting

1. Noun. (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc ¹

2. Noun. special cotton for surgery. ¹

3. Noun. the act of someone who bats ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of bat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Batting

1. a batt [n -S] - See also: batt

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Batting

batteryless batterylike batterymate batterymates battier batties battiest battik battiks battill

battilled battills battily battiness battinesses batting (current term) batting average batting averages batting away batting cage

batting coach batting for both sides batting glove batting gloves batting helmet batting in batting order batting orders batting out battings

Literary usage of Batting

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1. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"The batting Order.—It is often heard, "Who bats first, the catcher or the pitcher ?" and so on. The batting order has nothing to do with positions in the ..."

2. Cricket by Edward Lyttelton (1894)
"batting. IT is not because batting is a less important branch of the game ... The reason is that the interest of batting has always secured it more than its ..."

3. The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated by Andrew Ure (1836)
"Front View of the Lap Machine. nected system of apparatus, embracing the batting and the lapping machines. Plate III is a longitudinal section of a double ..."

4. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"Beating or batting the Flax.—Scutching consists of two operations—bruising the ... For the latter operation the Belgian batting-hammer is generally used. ..."

5. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington (1914)
"To that fact, more than to the increased cunning of pitchers, is the steady decrease in batting attributed by the thinking men of the base- ..."

6. A Manual of Operative Surgery by Lewis Atterbury Stimson (1878)
"... Cotton-batting Dressing. — This method is based upon the fact that air passed through cotton is freed by it from all its solid impurities. ..."

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