Talk:battel
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic Missing sense? (but probably nonce usage)
Missing sense? (but probably nonce usage)
editChambers 1908 also has intransitive verb battel or battill used by Edmund Spenser, defined as "to fatten". Etymology: Late Latin batilli, perhaps connected with "feed" verb sense of battel. Equinox ◑ 09:10, 7 October 2019 (UTC)