battel (plural battels)

1. Obsolete form of battle#English|battle.
2. (UK, legal, obsolete) A single combat.

   trial by battel; wager of battel

battel

1. (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive

   • a battel soil for grain, for pasture good

battel (battels, present participle battelling; past and past participle battelled)

1. (transitive) To make fertile.

   • to battel barren land

2. (ambitransitive, Britain, Oxford University) To supply#Verb|supply with provisions from the buttery.
   • 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 81461068 ↗, Act I ↗:

     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 good ſtomacke, and Battled with Diſcretion; at laſt, hauing done many ſlights and trickes to maintaine my witte in vſe (as my braine would neuer endure mee to bee idle,) I was expeld the Vniuerſitie, onely for ſtealing a Cheeſe out of Ieſus Colledge.

battel

1. (UK, Oxford University, mostly, in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
2. (UK, Oxford University, mostly, in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the buttery.