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Webster 1828 Edition


Batteler

BAT'TELER


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batteler

batteler

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Noun

batteler (plural battelers)

  1. (obsolete) A student at Oxford University who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, almost equivalent to a sizar at Cambridge.
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