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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Beating; the operation of beating.
  • noun In agriculture, threshing.
  • noun The operation of pulverizing or incorporating the ingredients of gunpowder by the old method of stamping with pestles.
  • noun Also wrongly spelled batage.

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