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batting, vbl. n.|ˈbætɪŋ|
[f. bat v.1, n.2]
1. The action of using or striking with a bat:
†a. formerly in washing or smoothing linen (attrib. in batting-staff, batting-log, etc.).
1611Cotgr., Batoir, a Launderesses batting staffe. 1798W. Hutton Fam. Hutton 98 A girl of fifteen..lading water into her pail, while standing upon her batting-lag.
b. in Cricket and Baseball. Also attrib., as batting average, batting glove.
1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 451 The hay may rue, that is unhous'd, The batting of that day. 1856Househ. Words 2 Feb. 59/2 Some tubular batting-gloves. 1867Ball Players' Chron. 12 Dec. 5/3 The best players are those making the best batting and fielding average. 1870[see average n.2 6 b]. 1882Daily Tel. 27 May, Messrs. Thornton and Schultz opened the batting for the Gentlemen. 1910Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 7/4 Cricketers will have to pay a trifle more for batting-gloves and bat handles.
c. Beating out the impurities from raw cotton, an operation now superseded by use of ‘opening’ and ‘scutching’ machines.
1819Pantologia, Batting Machine..for beating and cleaning cotton. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 311 Batting cotton by hand..seems by far the hardest work in a factory..and is somewhat similar to threshing corn.
2. concr. Cotton fibre prepared in sheets for quilts or bed-covers; cf. bat n.2 13.
1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 645 For some purposes a stronger batting..is prepared. 1883Century Mag. Oct. 819/2 Filtered through six layers of cotton batting. |