Battel

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  • adj. fertile; fruitful; productive
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A single combat. See Wager of battel, under wager.
  • n. Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
  • verb-intransitive. To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
  • v. To make fertile.
  • adj. Fertile; fruitful; productive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See battle.
  • See battle.
  • See battle.
  • n. plural At the university of Oxford in England: College accounts for board and provisions supplied from the kitchen and buttery.
  • n. The whole of the college accounts for board and lodgings, rates, tuition, and contributions to various funds.
  • n. At Eton college, a small allowance of food which, in addition to the college allowance, the collegers receive from their dames.
  • To stand indebted in the college-books at Oxford for provisions and drink from the buttery.
  • Word Usage
    "Many men "battel" at the rate of a guinea a week: I did so for years: that is, at the rate of three shillings a day for everything connected with meals, excepting only tea, sugar, milk, and wine."
    Variant
    wager   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fertile    fruitful    productive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mette    countree    minneapolis/st    brightnesse    mercifull    fearefull    fa    sel'    Saul    maste