Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BAT'TEL
BAT'TELBAT'TEL-ER, or BAT'TLER
BAT'TEL, v.i.
- To grow fat. [Not in use.] [See Batten.]
- To stand indebted in the college books at Oxford, for provisions and drink from the buttery. Hence a batteler answers to a sizer at Cambridge.
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