Batture

2 definitions found

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

  Batture \Bat`ture"\, n. [F., fr. battre to beat.]
     An elevated river bed or sea bed.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  BATTURE. An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water; 
  but it is sometimes used to signify the same elevation when it has risen 
  above the surface. 6 M. R. 19, 216. The term battures is applied, 
  principally, to certain portions of the bed of the river Mississippi, which 
  are left dry when the water is low, and are covered again, either in whole 
  or in part by the annual swells. The word battures, in French, signifies 
  shoals or shallows, where there is not water enough for a ship to float. 
  They are otherwise called basses or brisans. Neuman's Marine Pocket Dict.; 
  Dict. de Trevoux.