Sc. Obs. Also 6 battart, -irt, batter. [a. OF. bastard, pronounced bâtard (in same sense), perhaps confused in Scotl. with batter vb.] = BASTARD, or culverin bastard, a small cannon. Similarly battard-falcon, a kind of cannon.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 124. Foure cannonis, twa gross culveringis, and ane battart.
c. 1565. R. Lindsay, Hist. Scot. (1728), 108. Small artillery, that is to say, myand and battert-falcon.
1566. Inventories, 166 (Jam.). Item, tua pair of irne calmes for moyan and battard.
c. 1570. Bannatyne, Jrnl., 126 (Jam.). Item, tuo batteris monted for the wallis.
