esbategar

From esbatre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əz.bə.təˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ez.ba.teˈɣaɾ]

esbategar (first-person singular present esbatego, first-person singular preterite esbateguí, past participle esbategat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

1. (ambitransitive) to beat wildly, to flap, to thrash
   • 1927, Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Les aventures d'en Boi Delit o el braçalet de Marciana:

     Havia estat potser l'esbategar d'ales d'algun aligot, o el pas furient d'un cabirol entre la brossa.

     Perhaps it had been the beating of wings of some buzzard, or the impetuous passage of a roe deer through the brush.

• esbatec
• esbategament

• “esbategar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007