battel

[ bat-l ]

/ ˈbæt l /

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noun

an account with or terminal bill from a college of Oxford University for board, kitchen, and buttery expenses.

battels, expenses, bills, and accounts of a student at Oxford, including those for clothing, books, and personal expenses as well as for tuition, lodging, and food.

verb (used without object), bat·teled, bat·tel·ing.

to have an account with or to be supplied with food and drink from a college kitchen or buttery at Oxford University.

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Origin of battel

First recorded 1700–10; of uncertain origin; compare New Latin batillī, battillī, batellae, probably to be identified with late Middle English batell, battle, taken to mean “charge for provisions”; kinship with Scots, northern England dialect ba(i)ttle “rich, fattening (of pasture)” is dubious

OTHER WORDS FROM battel

bat·tel·er, noun

Words nearby battel

batt, battailous, battalia, battalion, batteau, battel, battels, battement, batten, Battenburg, batten down the hatches

How to use battel in a sentence

Battel further observes, that when one of these animals dies the rest cover his body with leaves and branches of trees.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
When this battel was ended, the king wanted of all his numbers but thrée hundred, which were slaine at that conflict.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9)|Raphael Holinshed
It is that he may have speech with you, alone, in the castle of Battel this night.
The Outlaw of Torn|Edgar Rice Burroughs
No names are believed to be in this “Battel Roll,” which are not fully entitled to the distinction.
William Blake|Algernon Charles Swinburne

This truth is extremely obvious in the old black-letter lawbooks on the subject of "trial by battel."
Democracy In America, Volume 2 (of 2)|Alexis de Toqueville