英语词汇“batement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	batement
释义	batement ? Obs. exc. Hist. [aphetic form of abatement¹.] a. Reduction, lessening, diminution. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 157 Instead of asking how much was cut off such a piece of Stuff, Carpenters ask what Batement that piece of Stuff had. b. *batement light* [light n. 10], an upper window or opening with a sloping or curved sill, i.e. abated or cut off at the low end to accommodate the curve of an arch, etc. 1445in J. A. Nichols Descr. Beauchamp Chapel (1838) 29 In the est windowe be vij lights..also sixe batiments lights, every light conteininge ij foote.1844R. Willis Archit. Nomencl. Mid. Ages iv. 51 They are lights with the lower corner cut off, or, in the language of workmen, they are lights with a batement..hence the term ‘batement lights’.1901R. Sturgis Dict. Archit. & Building 238/2 Batement light, in English Gothic traceried windows, a peculiar form of light, or subdivision of a window; one comprised between two mullions, and having a curved or inclined bottom caused by the arched heads of other lights below.
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