batture

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The steep bank opposite us is a "cut bank," an island or sandbar in a river is a "batture."

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  1. An alluvial elevation of the bed of a river; in particular, one of those portions of the bed of the Mississippi river which are dry or submerged according to the season. In September, 1807, occurred the “batture riots.” The batture was the sandy deposits made by the Mississippi in front of the Faubourg Ste. Marie [in New Orleans]. The noted jurist, Edward Livingston, representing private claimants, took possession of this ground, and was opposed by the public in two distinct outbreaks. G. W. Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, xxiii.

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  • By agreement of all parties, this batture was surveyed into squares and lots, and sold at public auction, and the money deposited in the Bank of Louisiana, to the credit of the Supreme Court of the United States, to abide the decision of that tribunal as to the rightful ownership. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • It was called a batture, a colloquial term indigenous to New Orleans. —  EQMM, November 2006
  • The Port of South Louisiana has voted to take batture property in Reserve for a new finger pier at its Globalplex dock but will leave out the land in front of St. Peter Catholic Church.
  • Southern Recycling purchased about 344 acres of batture land and 117 acres of dry land in St. Charles. —  CityBusiness Up to the Minute
  • The property - known as a batture because it is flooded part of the year - is across River Road from the Pentagon barracks. —  2theadvocate.com Latest News
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  1. French, a sand-bank, a shoal, from battre, beat, beat as waves: see bate, batter, and cf. batter.
 

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