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CIDE DICTIONARY

batement, n. [For Abatement. See 2d Bate.].

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. [1913 Webster]

Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

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