, v.i. To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of.
Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine.
Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust.
Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate.
Deep in the flesh, and open'd wide a red flood gate.