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Webster 1913 Edition

(ȧb′ȧ-tū̍r; 135)

Noun.

[F.

abatture

, fr.

abattre

. See

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them.

Crabb.

Noun.

[from abate.] Grass beaten or trampled down by a stag in passing.

abature ‎(plural abatures)

(usually in the plural) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. [Late 16^th century.]^[1]

↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2