batture

[< Cdn F]

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1n. — Obs.

a shoal or rocky shore, usually exposed at low water.

Quotations

1808

A strong Batture on left near beginning of the course, with a very high and rugged rock.

1822

The weather was remarkably cold during last night, & considerable quantities of ice were seen on the battures this morning

2n. — Obs.

an expanse of river beach; strand.

1825

Forded the River twice and Encamped on the Bature at Sun Set.

1873

Our mode of progress was . . . going ashore and hauling the boat when the wide beach called a "Batture" was on our side of the river.

1912

These "bottoms" were called "battures" by the voyageurs.

3n.

a sand bar, especially one that forms a small island when the water is low.

1814

Our people went on a few miles and then camped to dry their packs on a batture (sand bar).

1869

[There were] numerous low islands, and many sand bars, or "battures," as the voyageurs call them.

1909

. . . an island or sandbar in a river is a "batture."

4n. — Cdn French

See bottom ice 1958 quote.

1866

. . . I noticed him skimming majestically over vast ice fields, battures, as they are called. . . .

1941

There was still a broad selvedge of ice--what the Canadian French call a Batture--but in the middle the ice was cracking.