bate - Definition, Meaning and Synonyms

Lekhori

Definitions

1
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
Ah, left ſome Thorn ſhoul'd pierce thy tender Foot, / Or thou ſhoul'dſt fall in flying my purſuit! / To ſharp uneven Ways thy ſteps decline; / Abate thy Speed, and I will bate of mine.
2
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
[…] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand.
3
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
4
Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
5
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
6
simple past of beat; = beat.
Fitzpatrick, now perceiving […] that he had made a very unfortunate mistake, began to ask many pardons of the lady; and then, turning to Jones, he said, “I would have you take notice I do not ask your pardon, for you have bate me; for which I am resolved to have your blood in the morning.”
7
Clipping of masturbate.

1
Strife; contention.
[…] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
2
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.