abattis

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæbətəs/, /ˈæbəti/

abattis (plural abattis or abattises)

1. Alternative spelling of abatis

• abitats

From Old French abatëiz. By surface analysis, abattre (“to cut down”) +‎ -is.

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.ti/

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abattis m (plural abattis)

1. rubble
2. (Canada) an area that has been cleared of trees, but not yet of their stumps
3. (cooking, plural only) giblets
4. (military) abatis
5. (dated, slang, plural only) limbs

abattis

1. first/second-person singular past historic of abattre

• “abattis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• battais