ppl. a. [f. BATTER v.1 + -ED.] Bruised and shattered by repeated blows; worn and defaced by rough or hard usage, the chances of time, etc. Often fig.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 104. Over my altars hath he hung his lance, His batter’d shield.
1680. Lond. Gaz., No. 1538/4. A Brown Bay Nag … his Feet somewhat battered.
1700. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1721), T iij b. Old batter’d Horses.
1765. Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 57. The battered rake … has exhausted all his health.
1809. J. Barlow, Columb., II. 336. And pours destruction o’er its batter’d walls.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, liii. (1848), 240. The sexton’s spade gets worn and battered.
