A hen kept in a small cage or battery.

present participle of batten

(construction) Synonym of batten (“strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point”)

(physics) A form of electrochemical storage cell in which electrolyte flows between connected tanks; the direction of flow being opposite when the cell is charging and discharging; used to store electricity from intermittent suppliers such as wind farms.

(archaic) A battery; a voltaic cell.

(law, idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

simple past tense and past participle of bat

simple past tense and past participle of batten

One who batters. / (cooking) One who applies batter. / One who batters their spouse: one who commits domestic violence.

plural of batterer