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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A British military officer's orderly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person allowed by the government to every company of a regiment on foreign service. His duty is to take charge of the cooking utensils, etc., of the company. There is in the charge of the batman a bathorse for each company to convey the cooking utensils from place to place. Imp. Dict.
  2. n. A Turkish weight varying in amount in different localities. The batman formerly legal throughout the empire, now used in Constantinople and Smyrna, is 17 pounds avoirdupois. The great batman of Constantinople is 22.5 pounds; the little batman is 5.6 pounds. The batman of Tabriz is 6.4 pounds; the batman of Shiraz is 12.7 pounds; the batmanrei of Teheran is 28.3 pounds.

Wiktionary

  1. n. military A servant or valet to an army officer.
  2. n. A unit of weight used in the East.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
  2. n. A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer

Etymologies

  1. From Turkish batman. (Wiktionary)
  2. Obsolete bat, packsaddle (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hernesheir "Banks will not advance money", in the shorthand code used by railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906. See bathtub. Jan 20, 2013

  • seanahan A very litigious town. Aug 21, 2009

  • tbtabby The name of a town in Turkey. Aug 21, 2009

  • bilby "There was a daughter called Joan but she turned out badly too, started a child and went away, God knows where, and now he had no one to look after him but an old soldier called Faxy, a tall, stringy, ravaged-looking man, toothless and half mad Faxy had attached himself to Tom years before as a batman."
    - Frank O'Connor, 'The Miser'. Sep 6, 2008

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