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batlet

Pronunciation: /ˈbætlət/

The English word “batlet” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.

Etymology

From bat + -let. Probably a spurious word, in the 20th century reborrowed from word-lists. Both this and batler are only known from the same Shakespeare locus; neither is it known that battler means a fuller’s beetle but him who beetles or “posses” the clothes. However for the meaning of a flat cuboid on a handle to clean textiles by muscles battril, which could be a metathesis of batler, is…

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