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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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Abatement; diminution.

Moxon.

Batement light

(Arch.)

a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

Noun.

Abatement; deduction; diminution. [Bate, with its derivatives, is, I believe, little used, or wholly obsolete in the United States.]