† batlern.
Obsolete. rare.
Probably, a ‘beetle’ for battling clothes: see battle v.4
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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 46 And I remember the kissing of her batler.
1865 Reader 29 Apr. 481/3 I lately picked up in an old house in Yorkshire a ‘batlet,’ such as Touchstone kissed when in love.]
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