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) (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 ==== === Further reading === battitore in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana