Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Sbáttere, v. a.
1. to beat, shake, agitate. — uova, to beat up eggs; 2. to eat. Non c'è niente da —, there is nothing to eat; 3. to flap, flutter (as birds); 3. to chide, chastise, punish,4. to confute, retort; 5. to harass, persecute, torment; 6. to bate, diminish the price; v. r.to fret or vex one's self, to toss up and down.
Florio: a worlde of wordes, or most copious, dictionarie in Italian and English
sbattere: to beate down, to trample, to smite, to strike, to ouerwhelme. Also to affright or confound. Also to tosse, to shake, to turmoile. Also to thrash. Also to weatherbeate or shake. Also to abate, to defalke or dimunish from.