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▪ I. battling, vbl. n.1|ˈbætlɪŋ|
[f. battle v.1]
The action of the vb. battle; fighting, conflict.
c1300K. Alis. 100 Nyne and twenty ryche kynges, To make on him bataylynges. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 361 After forty years of battling with the stormy waters. 1878P. Bayne Purit. Rev. i. 10 The United Kingdom is now what the battlings of the seventeenth century made it.
attrib.1856Kane Arc. Exp. II. xxix. 289 The familiar localities of the whalers' battling-ground.
▪ II. † ˈbattling, vbl. n.2 Obs.
Forms: 4–5 battaillyng, 4–6 -alyng, 5 batayling, 6 bateling, -elyng, -elling, battalling, -alyng, -elyng, 7 battling.
[f. battle v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The furnishing with battlements, embattling.
1506in MS. Reg. Test. Ebor. VI. 173 [Robt. Drayton..leaves 30s.] to the edificacion of a new rooff wt batelling of the church. 1527Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (1854) 5, I giff to the batelyng of the church of Northen xxxiijs. iiijd.
2. concr. Battlement work, battlements.
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 136 That battalyng [v.r. battaillyng], withouten dout, Saffit thair liffis. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, To reyse a wall With batayling and crestes marciall. 1540Coventry Acc. in T. Sharp Dissert. (1825) 19 For mendyng the bateling yn the toppe of the pagent, viijd. 1620Shelton Quix. iv. xi. II. 140 Two foot broad of a Plank on the Battlings.
▪ III. † battling, batteling, vbl. n.3 Obs.
Also 7 batling.
[f. battle v.3 + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of causing to grow or thrive; nourishing, feeding; fertilizing, manuring of land.
b. intr. A growing fat or thriving.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 218 You shall helpe it [the earth] by such manner of batteling as hath beene spoken of. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. viii. 177 A jolly dame no doubt, as appears by the well-battling of the plump boy. Ibid. ii. x. 217 The well batling of the Giants bred in Philistia..attests the fertility of their soil.
2. That which ‘battles’ or nourishes; feeding, food:
a. that which nourishes animals; food, victuals;
b. that which fertilizes land; manure.
1601Holland Pliny I. 508 The fruit it selfe of the earth is a batling to the earth. 1611Cotgr., Morche, food, victualls, cheere, batling. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 371 Anie other sort of dung or batling. 1632Sherwood, Battling, vivres, manger, morche.
▪ IV. ˈbattling, vbl. n.4 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. battle v.4 + -ing1.]
The action of beating with a ‘bat,’ battler, battledore, etc.; in quot. attrib. battling-bench, battling-board, battling-stick.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 239 b, Fet iiii. battyllyng roddis [rudiculas] to beate this wolle. 1846J. J. Hooper Taking Census in adv. Simon Suggs etc. (1851) II. 183 John Green's sister..goes to her battlin bench. 1848― Ride with Old Kit Kuncker in Widow Rugby's Husb. etc. (1851) 96 What a devil of a paddlin' the old woman gin him with the battlin'-stick. 1878Halliwell Dict., Battling-stone, a large smooth-faced stone..by the side of a stream, on which washerwomen beat their linen to clean it. North. 1887Harper's Mag. July 272/1 The splay legged battling-boards fastened themselves into the earth under the blows of the bats.
▪ V. battling, ppl. a.1|ˈbætlɪŋ|
[f. battle v.1 + -ing2.]
Fighting, engaged in conflict; combative.
1787J. Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode upon O. Wks. 1794 I. 421 The mighty battl'ing Broughtons and the Slacks. 1834R. Mudie Brit. Birds (1841) II. 51 The gold-finch..is somewhat of a battling bird. 1840Carlyle Heroes iv. (1858) 236 The much-enduring, hard-worn, ever-battling man.
▪ VI. † ˈbattling, ppl. a.2 Obs.
Also 7 batling.
[f. battle v.3 + -ing2.
(As manure battled pasture, or made it battle, and as battling pasture battled the cattle that fed or battled on it, it is in some cases not possible to be sure whether ‘fertile’ or ‘fertilizing’ is the notion intended.)]
1. Nourishing or fattening to cattle; hence, fertile, productive, fruitful.
1548[see battle v.3 1.] 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1593) 164 [It] tooke roote And thriving in the battling soyle in burgeons foorth did shoote. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 4 The battling pastures lade [v.r. laid] with kine. 1662Fuller Worthies 229 The fair pasture nigh Haddon..so incredibly battling of cattle.
2. gen. Nourishing, making to grow or thrive; fertilizing to soil; nutritious to man.
1555Fardle Facions ii. viii. 164 The battling breathe of the gentle Weast winde. 1565Golding Ovids's Met. xv. (1593) 359 Udders full of batling milke. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 556 A batling fruitfull slugh, or humour. |