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From esbatre.

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esbategar (first-person singular present esbatego, first-person singular preterite esbateguí, past participle esbategat); root stress: (Central, Balearic) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to beat wildly, to flap, to thrash
    • 1927, Josep Maria Folch i Torres, Les aventures d'en Boi Delit o el braçalet de Marciana:
      Havia estat potser l'esbategar d'ales d'algun aligot, o el pas furient d'un cabirol entre la brossa.
      Perhaps it had been the beating of wings of some buzzard, or the impetuous passage of a roe deer through the brush.

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