bate

A large wave about to crash over a smaller one, with a lighthouse in the background, in a nautical style.
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A large wave about to crash over a smaller one, with a lighthouse in the background, in a nautical style.

The image is a visual representation of the word 'bate' derived from 'abate', meaning to reduce or lessen. It features a large wave about to crash, with a smaller wave in front of it, symbolizing the reduction in force. The inclusion of a lighthouse in the background signifies the idea of abating danger, while the nautical setting adds visual interest.

  1. verb — bates; bating; bated
    1. To reduce the force of something; to abate.
    2. To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
    3. To cut off, remove, take away.
    4. To leave out, except, bar.
    5. To waste away.
    6. To deprive of.
    7. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
    8. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
  2. noun
    1. Strife; contention.
  3. verb — bates; bating; bated
    1. To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
    2. Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
      • The fiꝛſt is holde faſt at all timys, and ſpecially whan ſhe batith. It is calde batyng, for ſhe batith with hiꝛ ſelfe moſt oftyn cauſeles[.]
      • I am like a hawk , that bates , when I see occasion of service , but cannot fly because I am tied to another's fist
  4. noun — bates
    1. An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
      • The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.
    2. A vat which contains this liquid.
  5. verb — bates; bating; bated
    1. To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
  6. verb — bates; bating; bated
    1. To masturbate.
Derived from abate