batture means A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 70 out of 100.
Why this word is great
BATTURE — [Noun] An elevated or raised area of a riverbed or seabed, particularly the alluvial land between a river at low-water stage and a levee. From the French batture, ultimately from Latin battere ("to beat, strike"). Doublet of batter. Unlike "floodplain" (which sprawls passively, awaiting inundation) or "sandbar" (which shifts with each caprice of current), a batture is a fixed defiance, a topographic refusal to be worn away. It is the cracked mud of a drought-stricken channel, the stubborn hump of silt that refuses the bargeman’s passage, the hidden spine of earth that surfaces only when the waters retreat—proof that even rivers, in their ceaseless beating, leave something behind.
noun
- A sea bed or a river bed that has been raised or elevated.“The purchaser of a riparious estate under the words "front to the levee," does not acquire the alluvion or batture, when there is land susceptible of separate ownership beyond the levee.”