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battels

battels noun: a members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham. Also the plural of battel.

Noun

battels

  1. A members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.
  2. (UK, obsolete, school slang) A small sum of money given to pupils.
    • Every boy had a shilling a week pocket-money, which we called battels, and which was advanced to us out of the pocket of the second master. On one awful day the second master announced to me that my battels would be stopped.1880, Anthony Trollope, “My Education”, in An Autobiography, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1883, page 13

Also used as

battels is also the plural of battel.

Synonyms of battels

Questions about battels

What does battels mean?
Battels means a members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.
What part of speech is battels?
Battels is a noun.

Words near battels in the dictionary

  1. battellers
  2. battelles
  3. battelling
  4. battells
  5. battelly
  6. battels
  7. battement
  8. battements
  9. batten
  10. Batten disease
  11. batten down

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