battitore

Italian

Etymology

From battere (to beat) + -tore (-er, agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bat.tiˈto.re/
  • Rhymes: -ore
  • Hyphenation: bat‧ti‧tó‧re

Noun

battitore m (plural battitori, feminine battitrice)

  1. (literally, rare) beater (one who beats)
  2. (hunting) beater (one who drives game towards the shooters)
  3. (baseball) batter
  4. (cricket) batsman
  5. (tennis, volleyball) server
  6. (skiing) one who operates a snow groomer
  7. (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) panel beater, (US) auto body mechanic
  8. (papermaking, historical) a worker who beats sheets in order to flatten and polish them
  9. (agriculture) thresher (one who threshes)
  10. (agriculture) the part of a threshing machine which handles the threshing of grain
  11. (agriculture) the part of a machine which detaches kernels from the corncob
  12. (military, obsolete) scout
    Synonym: esploratore
  13. (obsolete) doorknocker, knocker
    Synonym: battente

Further reading

  • battitore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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