batmann.1
/ˈbatmən/ A unit of weight used in Russia and the former Ottoman Empire, varying greatly in value according to the locality.
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1583 J. Newbery Let. 20 July in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 209 Euery bateman here [sc. in Babylon] maketh 7. pound and 5. ounces English waight.
1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) v. vi. 544 A Batman is fiue and fiftie pound weight English.
1753 G. Thompson & R. Hogg in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lii. 351 Their weights [at Khiva] are the great batman equal to 18 lb. russian, and the lesser batman 9 1/4.
1852 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 391 [At Constantinople] 6 okes [i.e. about 16 lbs.] = 1 batman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
batmann.2
/ˈbatmən//ˈbɑːmən/ A man in charge of a bat-horse and its load; a military servant of a cavalry officer. Now generally, an officer's servant.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > military servant > [noun]
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1755 in S. M. Hamilton Lett. to Washington I. 96 They have taken..another man who was batman to Doct. Craik.
1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) V. 198 The care of the Camp Kettles is not only the business of the Bâtman of the company, but of all the Bâtmen of the regiment.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 271 A Bât Man is allowed to the Surgeon for the care of the horse carrying the Instruments.
1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 206 The English loss was..a waggoner, three bat-men, and a horse.
1941 Aeronautics Oct. 60/3 R.A.F. officers in the future are to have the services of members of the W.A.A.F. for duties which have been carried out hitherto by batmen.
1955 Times 18 Aug. 5/1 Men employed as outside batmen in the married quarters were expected to clean and polish the houses, clean windows, cut lawns, fetch coal, and run errands.
1966 Times 9 July 9/7 Command Orders say a batman must now be dignified as an ‘orderly’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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batman
batman n. one who carries a bludgeon, a clubman.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > club or stick
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1833 Extracts as to Administ. Poor Laws 26 The batmen, so called from the provincial term of bat, for a bludgeon which they use.
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