What is "batteler"

Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d Battel, n.] A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
--Wright.

n. (context obsolete English) A student at (w: Oxford University) who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, almost equivalent to a sizar at Cambridge.

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