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

Related terms

• battere
• battimento
• battuta
• battuto

 

Further reading

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