makebate

How to use makebate in a sentence

• But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.

  Kenilworth | Sir Walter Scott

• makebate (IP315,d), busybody, breeder of strife "a discordant element."

  Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others | Various

• Barillon was therefore directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate.

  The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay