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bat⋅man

[bat-muhn]
–noun, plural -men. (in the British army)
a soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.

Origin:
1745–55; short for bat-horse man, equiv. to bat < F bât packsaddle (< VL *bastum, n. deriv. of *bastāre to carry < LGk *bastân, re-formation of Gk bastázein to lift, carry) + horse + man 1
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bat·man   (bāt'mən)   
n.  A British military officer's orderly.

[Obsolete bat, packsaddle (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man.]
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