Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
batler .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also
batler ,batling staff ,batting staff .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short
bat forbeating clothes whenwashing them.
Etymologies
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Examples
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II. iv.48 (262,5) [batlet] The instrument with which washers beat their coarse cloaths.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Based on the beloved book by Janelle Cannon, Stellaluna tells the tale of a baby bat whose life is flitting along right on schedule -- until an owl attacks her mother one night, knocking the bewildered batlet out of her loving grasp.
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I remember, when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took two cods and, giving her them again, said with weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.'
As You Like It 1599
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