Obs. rare–1. [? f. BATTER + DASHER or ? (from F. d’acier) of steel.] A weapon of offence.
1696. Aubrey, Misc. (1857), 215 (D.). The skreens were garnished with corslets and helmets, gaping with open mouth, with coats of mail, laces, pikes, halberts, brown bills, batterdashers, bucklers.
