Batman

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

II. Batman ·noun 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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