batman
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• noun
British A soldier or airman assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant or orderly.
"The colonel's batman ensured that his uniform was pressed and his boots were polished before the morning inspection."
A city and the capital of Batman Province in southeastern Turkey, situated near the confluence of the Batman River and the Tigris.
A historical unit of weight formerly used in the Ottoman Empire and parts of Central Asia, varying considerably by region and commodity.
"Merchants in the nineteenth-century bazaar measured bulk shipments of grain and raw silk by the batman."
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Word Origin & Etymology
In its military sense, the word entered English in the mid-18th century from French 'bât' (pack saddle), from Old French 'bast', combined with 'man', originally referring to a soldier in charge of a packhorse carrying an officer's baggage.