Brewer's: Batavia

The Netherlands; so called from the Batavi, a Celtic tribe who dwelt there.

“Flat Batavia's willowy groves.”

Wordsworth

Bate me an Ace

(See Bolton.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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