Crossword clues for bantam
bantam
- Lifted floor covering to catch variety of fowl
- This boxer is chicken
- Random House imprint
- Tiny chicken
- Rooster type
- Big name in paperbacks
- Paperback publisher named for a small fowl
- Little chicken
- Chicken little?
- Breed of small fowl
- Very small — batman (anag)
- Small layer
- Small domestic fowl
- Small and feisty
- Mini chicken
- Feisty little guy
- A little fowl
- Small chicken - small soldier
- Big name in paperback publishing
- A little chicken
- Not a big chicken
- Any of various small breeds
- Between fly and feather
- Boxing weight
- Small-sized fowl
- Diminutive
- Small, feisty one
- Miniature domestic fowl
- Stop mostly domesticated small chicken
- Small message prohibiting certain headgear
- Small hen
- Small fowl
- Little clucker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bantam \Ban"tam\, n. A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1749, after Bantam, former Dutch residency in Java, from which the small domestic fowl were said to have been first imported. Extension to "small person" is 1837. As a light weight class in boxing, it is attested from 1884, probably from the birds, which are small but aggressive and bred for fighting.
Wiktionary
a. 1 small or miniature 2 spirited or aggressive n. 1 any of several small chickens, especially one that is a miniature version of another 2 (context sports English) an age division between peewee and midget.
WordNet
adj. very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck]
n. any of various small breeds
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Wikipedia
Bantam may refer to:
- Bantam (poultry), small or miniature chickens or ducks
- Bantamweight, a weight class in boxing and mixed martial arts
A bantam ( Indonesian: Ayam kate) is a small variety of poultry, especially chickens. Etymologically, the name bantam is derived from the city of Bantam - currently known as " Banten Province" or previously "Banten Residency" - once a major seaport, in Indonesia. European sailors restocking on live fowl for sea journeys found the small native breeds of chicken in Southeast Asia to be useful, and any such small poultry came to be known as a bantam.
Most large chicken breeds have a bantam counterpart, sometimes referred to as a miniature. Miniatures are usually one-fifth to one-quarter the size of the standard breed, but they are expected to exhibit all of the standard breed's characteristics.
World War I recruiting poster
]] A bantam, in British Army usage, was a soldier of below the British Army's minimum regulation height of .
During the First World War, the British Army raised battalions in which the normal minimum height requirement for recruits was reduced from to . This enabled otherwise healthy young men to enlist.
Bantam units enlisted from industrial and coal-mining areas where short stature was no sign of weakness. The name derives from the former town of Bantam in Indonesia, from which a breed of small domestic fowl allegedly originated. Bantamweight was a weight category in boxing that had originated in the 1880s and had produced many notable boxers.
The first bantam battalions were recruited in Birkenhead, Cheshire, after Alfred Bigland, MP, heard of a group of miners who, rejected from every recruiting office, had made their way to the town. One of the miners, rejected on account of his size, offered to fight any man there as proof of his suitability as a soldier, and six men were eventually called upon to remove him. Bantam applicants were men used to physical hard work, and Bigland was so incensed at what he saw as the needless rejection of spirited healthy men that he petitioned the War Office for permission to establish an undersized fighting unit.
When the permission was granted, news spread across the country and men previously denied the chance to fight made their way to Birkenhead, 3,000 successful recruits being accepted for service into two new "Bantam battalions" in November 1914. The requirement for their height was between and . Chest size was one inch (2.5 cm) more than the army standard.
The men became local heroes, with the local newspaper, The Birkenhead News, honouring the men of the 1st and 2nd Birkenhead Battalions of the Cheshires with enamel badges - "BBB" - "Bigland's Birkenhead Bantams". Soon renamed the 15th and 16th Battalions, Cheshire Regiment, they undertook gruelling training and served in some of the most hard-fought battles of the war, such as the Battle of Arras in 1917. Another bantam battalion was the 14th Battalion (West of England), The Gloucestershire Regiment, raised in 1915 and sent to France in 1916. Eventually two whole divisions, the 35th and the 40th, were formed from "Bantam" men, who were virtually annihilated during the Battle of Bourlon. Heavy casualties, transfers to specialized Army tunneling companies and tank regiments, the introduction of conscription, and replacements by taller men, eventually led to Bantam units becoming indistinguishable from other British divisions.
Sidney Allinson has published a thorough study: The Bantams: The untold story of World War One.
Not to be confused with American Bantam
The Bantam was a British cyclecar manufactured by Slack and Harrison in Kegworth, Leicestershire in 1913.
It was powered by an 8 hp V-twin engine made by Precision. There was no gearbox and variation in transmission ratios was provided for by variable pulleys. Final drive was by chain.
The Bantam ( Bofors ANti-TAnk Missile) or Robot 53 (Rb 53) was a Swedish wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the late 1950s. It served with the Swedish and Swiss armies from 1963 and 1967 respectively. It can either be deployed by a single man carrying a missile and control equipment or from a vehicle. It has been fitted to the Volvo L3314 and the Scottish Aviation Bulldog. In the Swiss Army, it was mounted on Steyr-Daimler-Puch Haflinger light wheeled vehicles.
Usage examples of "bantam".
Bantam, a little old rat of a pony with a shaggy mane and long rusty tail, who stood dozing quietly by the roadside, little dreaming of the bustling times that awaited him.
The editor fancied the story, but Mamo, who had seen other things, had not noticed any bantam hen or chicks.
Portland, Maine, like two bantam cocks, and the Britisher was beaten in short order on September 5, 1813.
Hardwicke street, that used to be stravaging about the landings Bantam Lyons told me that was stopping there at two in the morning without a stitch on her, exposing her person, open to all comers, fair field and no favour.
When the stealing of grain had been made known at Belthorpe, the Bantam, a fellow-thresher with Tom Bakewell, had shared with him the shadow of the guilt.
Then he said if my father paid the money and nobody had tampered with his witnesses he would not mind if Tom did get off and he had his chief witness in called the Bantam very like his master I think and the Bantam began winking at me tremendously as you say, and said he had sworn he saw Tom Bakewell but not upon oath.
Bantam recommenced, and again the contortions of a horrible wink were directed at Richard.
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Farmer Blaize leaned round the Bantam to have a look at him, and beheld the stolidest mask ever given to man.
It was answered in an instant by little Lucy, who received orders to fetch in a dependent at Belthorpe going by the name of the Bantam, and made her exit as she had entered, with her eyes on the young stranger.
Miss Lucy ushered in the Bantam, who presented a curious figure for that rare divinity to enliven.
CHAPTER IX In build of body, gait and stature, Giles Jinkson, the Bantam, was a tolerably fair representative of the Punic elephant, whose part, with diverse anticipations, the generals of the Blaize and Feverel forces, from opposing ranks, expected him to play.
Giles, surnamed the Bantam, on account of some forgotten sally of his youth or infancy, moved and looked elephantine.
The Bantam jerked a bit of a bow to his patron, and then swung round, fully obscuring him from Richard.
Richard fixed his eyes on the floor, while the Bantam in rudest Doric commenced his narrative.