What is termed batture in Louisiana is the land made by accretion or deposits of the Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
The property - known as a batture because it is flooded part of the year - is across River Road from the Pentagon barracks. From Wordnik.com. [2theadvocate.com Latest News] Reference
Itodd: now that's the way to develeope a "batture". From Wordnik.com. [Jackson Free Press - Breaking News] Reference
Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the “batture lands”. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)] Reference
Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the “batture lands.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)] Reference
Isn't O'Dwyer the wingnut that was claiming ownership of the batture on the Orleans-Jefferson Parish line?. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
Now we live in Riverbend, right next to the levee, and there's a bona fide hobo jungle over on the batture. From Wordnik.com. [Hobo Stick] Reference
Municipality now is not less than two hundred thousand dollars, and, with the exception of the batture between the Faubourg St. Mary line and. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The batture lands are hydrologically connected to the Mississippi River, are flood-prone, and contain remnant habitat for “big river” species (e.g., pallid sturgeon) as well as river-front plant communities. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Louisiana (EPA)] Reference
A linear area known as the “batture lands”, the area between the levees on either side of the river, extends virtually the entire length of the alluvial plain along the course of the Mississippi River and its major tributaries. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA)] Reference
United States, in making good the title to the batture property in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
The river, and therefore the bayou, were now low, exposing wide margins of batture, and. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Nineteenth Army Corps] Reference
I have added a million of dollars to your wealth in the form of new land from the batture of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the "batture lands.". From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Southern Recycling purchased about 344 acres of batture land and 117 acres of dry land in St. Charles. From Wordnik.com. [CityBusiness Up to the Minute] Reference
He first emerged to public view in a contest with Mr. Jefferson relative to the batture property in the city of New. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Colletti said rainwater may well have been trapped in that low area of batture before and leaked through the levee. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
He first emerged to public view in a contest with Mr. Jefferson relative to the batture property in the city of New Orleans. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years]
The water was trapped in a heavily wooded, bowl-shaped area of low ground between the big levee and higher batture closer to the river. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
By agreement of all parties, this batture was surveyed into squares and lots, and sold at public auction, and the money deposited in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
Experts with the Army Corps of Engineers think the leak originates from a stagnant pond in a low section of batture near Powerline Drive. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
Livingston had purchased a property above Canal Street, and claimed all the batture between his property and the river as riparian proprietor. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
But he said the heavy rains last quarter dumped a record amount of water onto the batture, which would have resulted in longer, heavier seepage. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
Then finding that Gouvernail took no manner of exception to her action, she imposed her society upon him, accompanying him in his idle strolls to the mill and walks along the batture. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference
Green's plan was, while surrounding and threatening the fort on its land faces, to gain an entrance on the water front by crossing the batture and passing around the ends of the stockades. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Nineteenth Army Corps] Reference
Below Canal Street the levee was made firm by being well shelled, and the depth of water enabled boats and shipping to come close alongside the bank, which the accumulating batture prevented above. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference
He says there are few, very few persons in Louisiana who are at all aware of the great capability of our batture lands for the production of rice, and of a quality, too, he thinks, that will equal any in the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
Some years after the event above mentioned, Grymes, as the attorney of the city of New Orleans, succeeded, before the Supreme Court of the United States, in making good the title to the batture property in the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years]
By agreement of all parties, this batture was surveyed into squares and lots, and sold at public auction, and the money deposited in the Bank of Louisiana, to the credit of the Supreme Court of the United States, to abide the decision of that tribunal as to the rightful ownership. From Wordnik.com. [The Memories of Fifty Years]
But something to do with heart (cor = heart in Latin) and with bature (an obsolete spelling of batture = breakers (the rocks in the sea). From Wordnik.com. [courbature - French Word-A-Day] Reference
"Dat Gran 'Point'," resumed the black; "'tain't no point on de riveh, you know, like dat Bell' Point, w'at you see yondeh 'twixt dem ah batture willows whah de sun all spread out on the wateh; no, seh. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
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