bate

Jonathan Bate argues in the TLS that Swinburne was a master metrician as well as a pioneer in changing sexual attitudes.

The measure of oil also, a bate of oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten bates make a core: for ten bates fill a core.

He bate th' champeen iv the' wurruld last week be a scoore iv wan hundhred an' eighty-two to siventy-six.

De kote had to bate de trap wid one warmint ter catch anudder one.

Pend upon it boss, Miss Alice is ergwine to bite at the hook fore yu flings out de bate.

I nevertheless still loved Truth, and would bate no jot of my allegiance to her.