Bible Dictionaries
Batman
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
(2):
(n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Batman'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/batman.html. 1828.