battel

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• fertile; fruitful; productive

Verb

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

Origin

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