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Battels

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Rations or “commons” allowed to students at the University of Oxford. (To batten, to feast.)

Battel Bills. Buttery bills at the universities. (See above.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bath (Major)
Bath-kol (daughter of the voice)
Bathos [Greek, bathos, depth]
Bathsheba
Bathyllus
Batiste
Batrachomyomachia (pronounce Ba-trako-myo-makia)
Batta
Battar
Battels
Battersea
Battle
Battle of the Frogs and Mice (The)
Battle of the Kegs (The)
Battle of the Poets (The)
Battle of the Whips
Battle (Sarah)
Battledore
Battu
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