noun

• (UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
  "trial by battel; wager of battel"

adj

• (obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
  "a battel soil for grain, for pasture good"

verb

• (transitive) To make fertile.
• (ambitransitive, obsolete, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.
  "Troth, and for mine owne part, I am a poore Gentleman, & a Scholler, I haue beene matriculated in the Vniuerſitie, wore out ſixe Gownes there, ſeene ſome fooles, and ſome Schollers, ſome of the Citty, and ſome of the Countrie, kept order, went bare-headed ouer the Quadrangle, eate my Commons with a good ſtomacke, and Battled with Diſcretion; at laſt, hauing done many ſlights and trickes to maintaine my witte in vſe (as my braine would neuer endure mee to bee idle,) I was expeld the Vniuerſitie, onely for ſtealing a Cheeſe out of Ieſus Colledge."
• (intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.

noun

• (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
• (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
• (UK, Eton College, obsolete) A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance