Battel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Battel is a noun meaning (UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
Meaning
(UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To make fertile.
- (ambitransitive, obsolete, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.
- (intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.
- (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
- (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
- Archaic spelling of battle.
- (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
Example Sentences
trial by battel; wager of battel
a battel soil for grain, for pasture good
Word Forms
- battels
- batail
- battle
- batteling
- battelling
- batteled
- battelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include battner, battleground, commons, battle, battlewagon, bangtail.
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