Probably an orthographical variation for battah; desolation -- waste.
see HEBREW battah
H1326. bathah
בָּתָה noun feminine end, destruction (for בַּתָּה, perhaps on account of difference of meaning, perhaps from analogy of כָּלָה with like sense; compare Di) — בָּתָה וַאֲשִׁיתֵהוּ Isaiah 5:6 and I will make it (the vineyard) a destruction, a waste, or (Che) make an end of it.