noun
A contest, a struggle.
the battle of life
I returned, and saw vnder the Sunne, That the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of vnderstanding, nor yet fauour to men of skil; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
A contest, a struggle.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
A division of an army; a battalion.
Thenne kyng Arthur made redy his hooſt in x batails and Nero was redy in the felde afore the caſtel Tarabil with a grete hooſt / & he had x batails with many mo peple than Arthur had […]
They ſay, that the King diuided his Armie into three Battailes; whereof the Vant-guard onely well ſtrengthened with wings, came to fight.
The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
Iohn Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Earle of Surrey, Shall haue the leading of the Foot and Horſe. They thus directed, we will fllow ^([sic]) In the maine Battell, whose puiſſance on either ſide Shall be well-winged with our cheefeſt Horſe: This, and Saint George to boote.
hovering aloofe in the fields he suffered Wyat his Van and main Battell (cutting off some of the Reare) to march undisturbed save with one shot, from Knights-Bridge to Charing Chrosse.
verb
To join in battle; to contend in fight
Scientists always battle over theories.
She has been battling against cancer for years.
To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
She has been battling cancer for years.
adj
Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
battle grass battle pasture
Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.
battle land battle soil