Definitions for battel

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battel bat·tel

Spelling: [bat-l]

IPA: /ˈbæt l/

Battel is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in battel (abeltt).

Definitions for battel

noun

1. an account with or terminal bill from a college of Oxford University for board, kitchen, and buttery expenses.
2. 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)

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

Origin of battel

1700-10; compare New Latin batellae (1636), batillī (1557), probably to be identified with late Middle English batell (in AL), taken to mean “charge for provisions”; of obscure origin; kinshi

Examples for battel

Legal arguments followed, and the trial by battel was eventually postponed indefinitely.

This truth is extremely obvious in the old black-letter lawbooks on the subject of "trial by battel."

When this battel was ended, the king wanted of all his numbers but thrée hundred, which were slaine at that conflict.

One of the most remarkable wagers of battel occurred in 1817.

battel further observes, that when one of these animals dies the rest cover his body with leaves and branches of trees.

No names are believed to be in this “battel Roll,” which are not fully entitled to the distinction.

It is that he may have speech with you, alone, in the castle of battel this night.

All else are extras, and are included in “sizings” in Cambridge; in Oxford the term is “to battel.”

The ordering of their battel is with great security, there being very few lost in Fight.

For if they be not almost sure to win the battel, they had rather not fight, than run any hazzard of loosing it.