Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Batch

Batch ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old English bache, bacche, from Anglo-Saxon bacan to bake; compare German geback and Dutch baksel. See Bake, transitive verb]

1.
The quantity of bread baked at one time.
2.
A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.
A new batch of Lords. — Lady M. W. Montagu