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Definition of Batteler
1. n. A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Definition of Batteler
1. one who battels [n -S] - See also: battels
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batteler
Literary usage of Batteler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"batteler.) A student at Oxford who stands indebted, BATTLER. ... The sizar and
batteler were as independent as any other members of the college, ..."
2. The Strife of Life: A Book of Modern Verse by Gotthold August Neeff (1907)
"And should I forge an enemy of each and every friend, And forfeit health, respect
and peace, And wife and child and house and home, — I am a batteler and ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... at Cambridge, sue is used in a similar sense ; in the former university there
is a student named a batteler or battler ; in the latter, a siar. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"batteler," now a resident in a college, was originally a rank of students between:
commoners and servitors who, as the name implies, were not supplied with ..."
5. An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, Its Foundation and Early by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy (1903)
"... (our sizar or the batteler at Oxford) was (and is) a student who obtained his
commons free and paid for 1 But the evidence on this is conflicting. ..."
6. The Ancestor: A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and by Oswald Barron (1903)
"... but it should be remembered that many a batteler was a tenant's son who had
ridden to college with his young master, and that the industrious servitor ..."
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