English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
batten + -er; so called because beef is apt to batten or fatten those that eat it.
battner (plural battners)
- (slang, obsolete) An ox.
- The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.
References[edit]
- Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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