Examples of batter

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Both ends of this specimen have been battered but not flaked.
A proportion of the pitted cobbles also exhibit bruising and battering on the extremities, of the type usually seen on hammerstones.
In the village there was, of course, economic hardship, physical strain, battering and above all male control and subjugation.
When flakes were battered with either wood or bone very little damage was incurred at the upper end of the quartzite flake.
The humerus is probably of a hippopotamus and exhibits flaking and battering on the fractured shaft as well as at the articular end.
A few examples retain fairly sharp ridges, but these have usually been reduced by battering.
His ships, 'dirty and battered,' were surrounded by ice, but the men were bravely cutting through in an effort to advance towards the west.
The party had been battered by crises and scandals throughout its previous five years in government, was deeply unpopular and was widely expected to lose.
His reasons for calling the pitch a strike are the same as those given by batters or fans.
Taxes to finance government-bond revaluation would have battered a society already facing high taxes for other post-war burdens.
Students and staff were battered from all sides, sometimes on top of the wave and sometimes struggling in eddies and whirlpools.
Although all argued that they were battered women, this defense worked for only two.
In being 'as battered as the road is made' they are being compared to places of human activity, not being made into them.
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