Etymology

batting

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Today it means: Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc. Full definition →

English bat ← Middle English bat ← Old French batteinflu.
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batting · noun1

From bat + -ing, batt + -ing (“material, collection”).

batting · noun, verb2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-der.?
  2. Old Englishbatt
  3. Old Frenchbatteinflu.
  4. Middle Englishbat
  5. Englishbat
  6. English todaybatting

From bat + -ing (“action”).

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