2. Adjective. (alternative form of battling) ¹
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Definition of Batteling
1. battel [v] - See also: battel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batteling
Literary usage of Batteling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"batteling. At Oxford, the act of taking provisions from the buttery. batteling has
the same signification as SIZING at the University of Cambridge. — Gent. ..."
2. A guide to degrees in arts, science, literature, law, music, and divinity by Edwin Wooton (1883)
"batteling." This signifies, in common language, board. The following are the special
... Pembroke.—batteling in college required. 8t. Mary Hatt.—Optional. ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1895)
"... whereupon the defendant to save chamber-rent and other charges, quitted his
chamber and batteling in Merton College and removed his bed and books to the ..."
4. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"And well may the nurse herself be silent, whilst the well batteling of the babe
pleads aloud for her care and diligence; as here the piety and pregnancy of ..."
5. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1906)
"... armey Lade in the Rear on thare fases til Nite while the British ware batteling
a Brest work Nine Logs thick in Som plases which was Dun without ye Help ..."
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