Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mark or track of a beast of the chase on the grass; foiling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.
Etymologies
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From Old French abatture, abatre ("to knock down, to destroy"). See abate
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