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English
Pronunciation
Noun
abattis (plural abattis or abattises)
- Alternative spelling of abatis
1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 34, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 469:He withdrew Torfrida and his men into the heart of the forest,—no hint of the place is given by the chronicler,—cut down trees, formed an abattis of trunks and branches, and awaited the enemy.
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French abatëiz. By surface analysis, abattre (“to cut down”) + -is.
Pronunciation
Noun
abattis m (plural abattis)
- rubble
- (Canada) an area that has been cleared of trees, but not yet of their stumps
- (cooking, plural only) giblets
- (military) abatis
- (dated, slang, plural only) limbs
Verb
abattis
- first/second-person singular past historic of abattre
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