(Cornwall, Devon, dialect) Of the moon, when it is waning.

present participle of bate

(now rare) Apart from; except.

A surname transferred from the given name. / An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States.

simple past tense and past participle of bate

Reduced; lowered; restrained

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bate

Strife; contention.

(intransitive, slang) To masturbate.

(transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate. / (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation / (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.