battling

plural battlings · alternative batteling

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.

comparative more battling · superlative most battling · alternative batteling

1. Nourishing; fattening.

   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, [...]

   1873, Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists

2. Fertile.

comparative more battling · superlative most battling

1. Engaged in battle.

1. participlepresentpresent participle of battle

plural battlings

1. countableuncountableEngagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
2. countableuncountableStruggling to make a life; doing it hard.

   We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.

   1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 47