battels

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noun

A members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of battel
  2. A members' termly bills at many colleges at the Universities of Oxford and Durham.
  3. UKobsoleteschool slangA small sum of money given to pupils.

    Every boy had a shilling a week pocket-money, which we called battels, and which was advanced to us out of the pocket of the second master. On one awful day the second master announced to me that my battels would be stopped.

    1880, Anthony Trollope, “My Education”, in An Autobiography, volume 1, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1883, page 13

    Synonyms: allowance, battlings, pocket money

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA small sum of money given to pupils.

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