batteler
nounEtymology From battel + -er.
1
Obsolete A student who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for.
Oxford University
- Dr. Radcliffe, the beneficent founder of this structure, was admitted a batteler of University College, in 1665, and was afterwards made senior scholar.1833, J.N. Brewer, “Oxford”, in Beauties of England and Wales: