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The art of hitting something repeatedly until it stops disagreeing with you.
means Striking someone or something hard and repeatedly, or coating food in batter before frying.
from From Old French batre, to beat, via Latin battuere — the same root that gave us battle, batter, and the medieval battering ram that ruined castle doors.
Two meaningsViolent beating, or dunking fish in flour goo.
Siege originBattering rams predate written history by millennia.
Legal weightBattery is the crime of unwanted physical contact.