battling
nounadjectiveadjectiveverbnounattested in dialogue
A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
noun
- 1
A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
- 2
That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
Etymology
From battle (“to nourish, feed”).
adjective
- 1
Nourishing; fattening.
Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]
- 2
Fertile.
adjective
- 1
Engaged in battle.
Etymology
From Middle English batellynge, equivalent to battle + -ing.
verb
- 1
Also a form of battlepresent participle of battle
noun
- 1
Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
- 2
Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.
We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.
Etymology
From Middle English bataillinge, equivalent to battle + -ing.
Forms
- plural
- battlings
- comparative
- more battling
- superlative
- most battling
battling · A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
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