▪ I. battled, ppl. a.1
(ˈbæt(ə)ld)
[f. battle v.1 + -ed.]
1. Ranged in battle-array; disposed in battalions.
| 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 46 He sommoned braue Dukes, stout Earles and Lordes In batteled armes before him to appeere. 1841 J. W. Orderson Creol. xviii. 213 She could not..stay the ‘battled pestilence.’ |
2. poet. Fought, contested.
| 1810 Scott Lady of L. i. xxxi, Soldier rest! Thy warfare o'er, Dream of battled fields no more. |
▪ II. battled, ppl. a.2 Obs. exc. poet.
(ˈbæt(ə)ld)
Forms: 4 batayld, -ailed, -ayled, (Sc.) battalit, 4–5 baytayled, (Sc.) battailyt, 5 batild, 6 batteled, -eld, (Sc.) battelit, 7 batled, 7– battled.
[f. battle v.2 + -ed: cf. OF. bataillié now bastillé.]
1. Fortified with battlements; embattled.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B 1183 For þe borȝ watz so bygge baytayled alofte. c 1400 Rom. Rose 4162 Lest ony tyme it were assayled, Ful wel aboute it was batayled. 1600 Fairfax Tasso xiii. xlviii. 244 Built like a batled wall. 1810 Scott Lady of L. v. xxix, The castle's battled verge. 1830 Tennyson Dream Fair Women 220 The valleys of grape-loaded vines that glow Beneath the battled tower. |
† 2. transf. Having an edge or outline shaped like a battlement; crenelated. Obs.
| c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 40 His comb was redder than the fyn coral, And batayld, as it were a castel wal. [1405 Test. Ebor. (1836) I. 318 Unum gobellum..cum operculo batellato. 1422 (?) Ibid. I. 404, j. murreus..cum ligacione batilde.] |
▪ III. † battled, ppl. a.3 Obs.
(ˈbæt(ə)ld)
Also 7 batled, battilled.
[f. battle v.3 + -ed.]
Of animals: Nourished, fed up, fattened. Of pasture, land; Fertilized, manured. (Commonly well-battled.)
| 1611 Cotgr., Vne fille bien advenuë, well proeued, well growne..well batned, or batled. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 212 Well manured and batled ground. Ibid. 311 In a free and well battilled ground. |