batman

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   A servant or valet to a military officer.

   “Private McLean,” he called to his batman who, for one-and-six a week, cared for his belongings, “tak' chairge o' the dog, wull ye, an' fetch 'im to the non-com mess when ye come to put ma kit i' gude order.”

   Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to question him.

   [A]s a rule the chambers were occupied only by Stack, who had been Wilfrid's batman in the war, and had for him one of those sphinx-like habits which wear better than expressed devotions.

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   familierA personal assistant or supporter.

   He became my retainer, my batman, the solution to my ever-growing need for an extra pair of hands.

   Thank you to a special Carer, Thank you for being my nurse, My housemaid, and my cook, My batman and my chauffeur, And my eyes when I forget to look!

   The Quease, as you will have read, thought this a huge cheek and, as is ever the case with her, was not slow to point it out. She further accused me of treating him as my batman.

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   To act as a batman, wait on an officer.

   Batmanning was voluntary. McPherson was a bit incensed about the loss of his batman, but he made do with somebody else.

   OK, I batmanned. Give me an Xterm.

   Yes, well, had I known you were having a row with the loo, I would have batmanned the other direction.

   The preservation of the batmanning system in captivity was established through an Anglo-German agreement of 1918, which had allowed one orderly to be allocated to a group of seven imprisoned captains, one to a group of four field officers and one to each general.

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   A unit of weight established in 1931 equal to 10 kg.

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   historiqueA Turkish unit of weight varying by location, time, and item from 2–8 okas (about 2.5–10 kg).

   Euery bateman [in Bagdad] maketh 7. pound and 5. ounces English waight.

   A Batman is fiue and fiftie pound weight English.

   Their weights [in Khiva] are the great batman equal to 18 lb. russian, and the lesser batman 9¼.

   At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois.

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   Coelostathma discopunctana, a moth of Eastern North America.

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   argotTo climb up or down a rope free hand (i.e. as Batman does).

   At 16,200 feet I batmanned madly down the fixed ropes, stopping constantly to catch my breath, not sure how much longer I could continue.

   Instead, they batmanned effortlessly hand-over-hand up the rope like kids pulling in perch.

   The Germans had left fixed ropes in place, which the Brits unashamedly batmanned up to reach the summit ridge.

   So without hesitation I “batmanned” the rope, freed it, and we continued.

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batmanned

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