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Battard, Battart, n. Also: battarde, -erd, batard; battartt, -ert, -irt, -erit; battar, -er. [F. bâtard. later form of bastard. Cf. Culverin.] A small cannon.(a) 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII. 391.
At thair departing witht the saiddis battardis furth of Linlithgw to Edinburght 1568 Treas. Acc. MS. 125.
Transporting of ane battard, ane moyane, twa slangs, twa barrellis [etc.] 1571 Waus Corr. I. 78.
Thair is cumand twa thowsand futt men, … twa gros culweringis and tua battardis a1578 Pitsc. II. 86/13.
He … brocht witht him tuo great cannonis. … tuo battardis, tuo dubill fallcons 1581 Mar & Kellie MSS. 35.
The battard of brass mountit with quheills 1614 Crim. Trials III. 293.
I have this day sent to Leith two hundreth bullets for the canon and batard(b) 1566 Inv. R. Wardr. 166.
Twa battartis of found mountit on thair stokkis 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 124.
Foure cannonis, twa gros culveringis, and ane battart a1578 Pitsc. I. 331/4.
Tuo gret cannonis … witht tua greit battartis and tua myans 1580 Reg. Privy C. III. 319.
Ane battirt … montit upoun ane auld stok 1585 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 193/1.
Ane battartt of found, stokit and garnesit with irne 1628 M. Works Acc. XX. 15 b.
Nyne pair of quheillis for the battert, saiker. and moyen(c) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 108.
Tuo batteris monted for the wallis, and not for the feildis

b. Attrib. with bullat, and descriptively with cannon or falcone. Also with quheill. See also Culvering. 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII. 419.
Creillis laidnit witht pulder, cannoun, and battarde bullattis 1547 Ib. IX. 104.
For vj score men [that] brocht up the last cannoun battard and ingianes 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 133.
Thair was of canone, and cannone feir, myen, and battard, 500 shot at leist 1571 Treas. Acc. MS. 148.
Making of certane callaberdis to pas gros culvering, battard, moyane, sacart, dowbill and singill falcone bullettis a1578 Pitsc. I. 251/27.
Scho buire mony cannons … witht iij^c schott of small artaillȝie. that is to say, mayan and batterit, facouns and quarter fallcouns [etc.] 1598 Treas. Acc. MS. 86 b.
The twa pair of batterit quheillis