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a term used originally in the University of Oxford and later also at the University of Durham to refer to food ordered by members of the college as distinct ...
The meaning of BATTEL is the account for college expenses at Oxford University; specifically : the account for board and provisions supplied from the ...
Battels definition: (at some universities) the account of a member of a college for board, provisions, and other college expenses. See examples of BATTELS ...
(at some universities) the account of a member of a college for board, provisions, and other college.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, ...
battels. plural of battel; (obsolete, UK, school slang) A small sum of money given to pupils. 1880, Anthony Trollope, “My Education”, in An Autobiography ...
What are battels? Battels is a collective term for all college charges and financial awards applied to your college account. Your battels/college account is ...
The earliest known use of the verb battel is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for battel is from 1570, in the writing of Peter Levens, ...
British Termsan account with or terminal bill from a college of Oxford University for board, kitchen, and buttery expenses. British Terms battels, expenses, ...
Battel Definition · Obsolete form of battle. · (UK, law, obsolete) A single combat. · (UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Provisions ordered from the ...
Battels (perhaps from obsolete battle, 'to feed'). Source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Author(s):: Susie Dent. At Oxford University ...
noun (Old Eng. Law) A single combat. See Wager of battel, under wager . · noun Univ. of Oxford, Eng. · transitive verb obsolete To make fertile. · intransitive ...
Oct 18, 2014 — Mods and battels. At Oxford, students read rather than study a subject, a usage which goes back to the Middle Ages. Final examinations were ...
▸ noun: (obsolete, UK, school slang) A small sum of money given to pupils. Similar: battue, battledore, game, minibattle, badders, bunting, batten ...
Battels definition: (at some universities) the account of a member of a college for board, provisions, and other college expenses. See examples of BATTELS ...
The Battels family name was found in the USA, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Battels families were found in USA in 1880. In 1840 there were 2 ...
Rations or “commons” allowed to students at the University of Oxford. (To batten, to feast.) Battel Bills. Buttery bills at the universities. (See above.).
Verb · (intransitive, Yeshivish) To waste, especially time. · (transitive, Yeshivish) To nullify. References.
College charges ('Battels') are payable by mid-day of the Friday of Week 1 of each Term. Your battels statement will be emailed to you at the beginning of 0th ...
All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde, as well by sea as lande, : set foorth at large, liuely described, beautified, and ...