batteler
English
Alternative forms
Noun
batteler (plural battelers)
- (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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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for batteler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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