batteler

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Etymology

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From battel +‎ -er.

Noun

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batteler (plural battelers)

  1. (Oxford University, obsolete) A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
    • 1833, J.N. Brewer, “Oxford”, in Beauties of England and Wales:
      Dr. Radcliffe, the beneficent founder of this structure, was admitted a batteler of University College, in 1665, and was afterwards made senior scholar.

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  • sizar (Cambridge University)
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