battel

Meanings

1. Archaic spelling of battle.
2. A single combat.

1. fertile; fruitful; productive

1. To make fertile.
2. To supply with provisions from the buttery.
3. To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.

1. Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
2. Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
3. A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance

1. To waste, especially time.
2. To nullify.

Etymology

From Middle English batel, batayle from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“military exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, hit, beat, fight”), from a Gaulish root, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to stab, dig”). Doublet of battalia and battle.