Talk:bate

Noun Sense:

I don't know the technical details, yet there's a problem with the Address Description. Check on https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=bate%20etymology&addon=opensearch It says { Bate were "crazy" people with whom one could have some fun, a sexual escapade perhaps, and they might be married because they excelled women in butchering, tanning, and other domestic tasks. But they never were honored, and when a bate raised a gun against the enemy }, which was probably a badly pondered prank of some kind. Someone please correct the circumstance.

Just the noun sense. SemperBlotto 08:17, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Keffy 16:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Consensus Keep. Have noted on page. Andrew massyn 15:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

English verb sense #2
This sense (To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation) seems intended only to explain the idiom "with bated breath". I would like to remove "usually with the sense of being in anticipation", unless someone can show examples of this "anticipation" sense outside the "bated breath" idiom. Let&#39;s-ask-geoff (talk) 07:22, 11 November 2023 (UTC)