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batting

nounnounverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈbætɪŋ//

Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc.

  2. 2

    Special cotton for surgery.

Etymology

From bat + -ing, batt + -ing (“material, collection”).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of someone who bats.

    the battings of her eyelashes

  2. 2

    The action of using a bat.

Etymology

From bat + -ing (“action”).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of batpresent participle and gerund of bat

Forms

plural
battings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).