bate hides and skins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : unable to bate our enthusiasm. ,setbacks that bated his hopes. From Dictionary.com.
Henry Sidgwick likes to "bate" - and-switch. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
It's a called a bate, a shanty settlement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 24, 2007] Reference
Now it's time for your bate, so you eat it and then. From Wordnik.com. [Canny Miner Lad] Reference
Up that way the bate lay, to the north, up the alley. From Wordnik.com. [For Love of Mother-Not]
And he oiled up the springs so the hammers could bate. From Wordnik.com. [Mick Sullivan's Mad Clock] Reference
De-bate, they were informed, would only slow them down. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
They got both Romney and McCain to take the bate on that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 16, 2007] Reference
A shrewd wife brings thee bate, wiue not and neuer thriue. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
Sport is 'n nasionale bate wat baie vir versoening beteken. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And it's a bate and switch, which is not a healthy situation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2004] Reference
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
"That they won't bate us more than foor miles," replied Gerald. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
"Shure they can't bate us more than three miles," concluded Gerald. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
Obama is saying don't take the bate ... stay focused on the issues. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: McCain "Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election"] Reference
Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not bate thee a scruple. From Wordnik.com. [All’s Well That Ends Well] Reference
All the rest, as with one accord, roared out to know “who bate her”. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
A culprit in the pillory (bate the eggs) meets with no severer exprobration. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
But come now, miss, you must be bate out entirely wid the joultin 'o the cars. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
Half-furled, they flapped about the towering body like those of a falcon at bate. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Sabin hurled his newly retrieved saker aloft in a bate of wings and drew his sword. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
One day hoo'd a float in her piece, and aw couldn't find it i 'mi heart to bate her. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
"How dare you say dirty to the greatest hand in Ireland," says he, going to bate her. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
You might get a ma-jority to agree to a treaty, but then the clans have to de-bate it. From Wordnik.com. [The Howling Stones]
Still, that won't stop political observers from serving up a fresh batch of click bate. From Wordnik.com. [HUFFPOST HILL - JULY 9TH, 2010] Reference
But his aides have advised him, don't take the bate, stick with the substantive issues. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2008] Reference
Efforts at livening things up with music and song seemed only to exacer - bate the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
Some of these partnerships would bate ownership, though remaining under the Denel umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle?. From Wordnik.com. [The first part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
"Burn," says Ronny -- "burn; they'll hiv a bleeze ye'll see for twenty miles -- we're bate, Dan.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
It is also named "Make bate," because said to set a married couple quarrelling if put in their bed. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
These measures were of equal capacity, but the bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
"I hated myself," says Cara, who'd broken up with Seefeldt by then, "and I wanted Dan to bate me, too.". From Wordnik.com. [She's Not Baby Jessica Anymore] Reference
We left some attractive bate for her and some of her bedding, so hopefully she'll be attracted tot hat. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2006] Reference
Normally, a Y-770 speedster like Make-bate would have been obliged to make three pit stops to cover the. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
He will grant you something, and bate more; and this bating shall in conclusion take away all he granted. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
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