Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of one who bats.
  • noun Cotton, wool, or synthetic fiber wadded into rolls or sheets, used for stuffing furniture and mattresses and for lining quilts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of washing or smoothing linen with a bat.
  • noun The process of beating raw cotton with hazel-or holly-twigs, on a frame made of cords, for the purpose of opening the matted locks, or of beating out impurities.
  • noun Cotton or wool prepared in thick but light matted sheets for quilts or bed-covers, the quilting of garments, etc. Also called bat, batts.
  • noun The act or manner of using a bat in a game of ball: as, their batting was good.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
  • noun Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc..

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun sewing cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • noun special cotton for surgery.
  • noun the act of someone who bats
  • verb Present participle of bat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base
  • noun stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Sense 2, from the beating of raw cotton to clean it.]

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  • "But for the bright line of urgency and command running through it, he might have simply been batting the breeze with an old friend. It was right to call him, Thad thought."

    - 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.

    December 31, 2007