abature
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French abatture, abatre (“to knock down, to destroy”). See abate
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
abature (plural abatures)
- (usually plural only) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. [Late 16th century.][1]
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 2:
