Battel

Full definition of battel

Noun

1. Obsolete form of battle
2. (UK, legal, obsolete) A single combat.trial by battel; wager of battel

Adjective

1. (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productiveA battel soil for grain, for pasture good. — Fairfax.

Verb

1. To make fertile.
• RayTo battel barren land.
2. (UK, Oxford University) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

Noun

1. (UK, Oxford University, mostly, in the plural) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them.