meaning of bate
1. Strife; contention.
2. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
3. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
4. To leave out; to except.
5. To remove.
6. To deprive of.
7. To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
8. To waste away.
9. To attack; to bait.
10. imp. of Bite.
11. To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
12. See 2d Bath.
13. An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
14. To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
15. soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments; "bate hides and
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Related Words
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