Batter sb.³

[f. BAT v.¹ + -ER¹.] One who bats; esp. the player who uses the bat in the game of cricket.

1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 174. Such mutual compliments from man to man—bowler to batter, batter to bowler.

1854.  Warter, Last of Old Squires, v. 48. The last-named one the OLD SQUIRE thought the most manly of Country-sports, and he himself had been a good Batter in his Day.