batteled

Verb (1)

battel (third-person singular simple present battels, present participle (US) batteling or (UK) battelling, simple past and past participle (US) batteled or (UK) battelled)

1. (transitive) To make fertile.
2. (ambitransitive, obsolete, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.
   • Troth, and for mine owne part, I am a poore Gentleman, & a Scholler, I haue beene matriculated in the Vniuerſitie, wore out ſixe Gownes there, ſeene ſome fooles, and ſome Schollers, ſome of the Citty, and ſome of the Countrie, kept order, went bare-headed ouer the Quadrangle, eate my Commons with a...1607, W. S. [attributed to Thomas Middleton or William Shakespeare (doubtful)], The Pvritaine. Or The VViddovv of Watling-streete. […], imprinted at London: By G[eorge] Eld, →OCLC, Act I
3. (intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.

Verb (2)

battel (third-person singular simple present battels, present participle battelling, simple past and past participle battelled)

1. (intransitive) To waste, especially time.
2. (transitive) To nullify.

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