bate

Meanings

1. To reduce the force of something; to abate.
2. To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
3. To cut off, remove, take away.
4. To leave out, except, bar.
5. To waste away.
6. To deprive of.
7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.

1. Strife; contention.

1. To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
2. Of a falcon: to flap the wings vigorously; to bait.

1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
2. A vat which contains this liquid.

1. To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.

1. simple past of beat; = beat.

1. Clipping of masturbate.

1. direction, course, track

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.
3. A town in Comoé province, Burkina Faso.
4. A village in Nova Gorica municipality, Slovenia.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).