battitore
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From battere (“to beat”) + -tore (“-er”, agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]battitore m (plural battitori, feminine battitrice)
- (literally, rare) beater (one who beats)
- (hunting) beater (one who drives game towards the shooters)
- (baseball) batter
- (cricket) batsman
- (tennis, volleyball) server
- (skiing) one who operates a snow groomer
- (UK, General Australian, New Zealand) panel beater, (US) auto body mechanic
- (papermaking, historical) a worker who beats sheets in order to flatten and polish them
- (agriculture) thresher (one who threshes)
- (agriculture) the part of a threshing machine which handles the threshing of grain
- (agriculture) the part of a machine which detaches kernels from the corncob
- (military, obsolete) scout
- Synonym: esploratore
- (obsolete) doorknocker, knocker
- Synonym: battente
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- battitore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- Italian terms suffixed with -tore
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ore
- Rhymes:Italian/ore/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian terms with rare senses
- it:Hunting
- it:Baseball
- it:Cricket
- it:Tennis
- it:Volleyball
- it:Skiing
- Italian terms with historical senses
- it:Agriculture
- it:Military
- Italian terms with obsolete senses
- it:Occupations
- it:People