plural of battle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of battle

A contest, a struggle. / (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.

(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight / (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.

(UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England, agriculture) Improving; nutritious; fattening. / (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Northern England) Fertile; fruitful.

To feed or nourish (someone or something). / To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.

A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle. / A town in East Sussex, England; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings.

simple past tense and past participle of battle

(poetic, archaic) Battlemented. / (heraldry) Embattled.

A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening. / That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.