Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Batement

Batement ({not transcribed}) , noun

[For Abatement. See 2d Bate.]

Abatement; diminution. — Moxon
Collocations (1)
Batement light (Architecture) , a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.