An epithet of uncertain meaning, in the following passage: the apparent etymology suggests ‘round,’ ‘pot-bellied.’

noun. Nautical, deep water inside a shoal or bar.

noun. A word used only by Shakspere in the passage cited, in the folio of 1623, where the quarto editions have battero and bat; it is, like battero, apparently a misprint for batton, battoon, or battoun, a stick, cudgel. See batton, batoon, baton, and bat.

noun. A cudgel.

noun. Deep water inside a shoal or bar.

noun. A cudgel.

adjective. Round; pot-bellied.

"Nay, come not near th’ old man; keep out, che vor ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder."

Gallo  balow  callow  cavallo  gallow  

cudgel