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battling en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From battle (“to nourish, feed”).

Meanings

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, [...] 1873, Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists:
2. Fertile.

Forms

battling en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From battle (“to nourish, feed”).

Meanings

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.

Forms

battling en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English batellynge, equivalent to battle + -ing.

Meanings

1. Engaged in battle.

Forms

Deriveds

unbattling

Translations (2)

eo batalanta (engaged in battle) · es batallaroso (engaged in battle)

battling en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English batellynge, equivalent to battle + -ing.

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, present) present participle of battle
   form of battle

battling en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Middle English bataillinge, equivalent to battle + -ing.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
2. (countable, uncountable) Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.
   • We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling. 1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 47:

Forms

Deriveds

rap battling