also 6 batring. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That batters or violently assails with blows.
1587. Gascoigne, Flowers, Hearbs, etc., 290. Such batring tiro this pamph[l]et here bewraies.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, V. 38. Town-battering Mars!
1871. Farrar, Witn. Hist., iii. 102. The battering violence of his impassioned rhetoric.
