battling

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English

Etymology 1

From battle (to nourish, feed).

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Noun

battling (plural battlings)

  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.

Adjective

battling (comparative more battling, superlative most battling)

  1. Nourishing; fattening.
    • 1873, Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists:
      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.

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

battling (comparative more battling, superlative most battling)

  1. Engaged in battle.
Derived terms

Verb

battling

  1. present participle of battle

Etymology 3

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

Noun

battling (countable and uncountable, plural battlings)

  1. Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.

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