Batement

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Batement \Bate"ment\, n. [For {Abatement}. See 2d {Bate}.]
     Abatement; diminution. --Moxon.
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     {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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