noun, masculine/ba/plural: bâts
packsaddle
Related: cheval de bât, c'est là que le bât blesse
Inherited from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, derivative of *bastō (“to carry, serve as a support, suffice”), from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, bear”). Displaced Classical Latin clitellae.