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Rations or “commons” allowed to students at the University of Oxford. (To batten, to feast.)
Battel Bills. Buttery bills at the universities. (See above.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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