battel

battel means A single combat. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Etymology

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

noun

A single combat.“trial by battel; wager of battel”
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

adj

fertile; fruitful; productive“a battel soil for grain, for pasture good”

verb

To make fertile.
To supply with provisions from the buttery.“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 maintai”
To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.
To waste, especially time.
To nullify.