batayle

• batel, bataylle, bataille, bataile, bataill, batail, batell, batayll, bateil, baitale

Borrowed from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia.

• IPA^(key): /batˈɛi̯l(ə)/, /ˈbatɛl(ə)/, /ˈbatəl(ə)/

batayle (plural batayles)

1. An extended fight, war or armed contest; battling or warring.
2. A battle; a match between two rival armed forces.
3. A company or band of soldiers; a portion of one's fighting force.
4. A duel or match to decide a dispute.
5. A fight or dispute between ideas or religious forces:
   1. (rare) One's striving to eliminate or expunge malicious forces.
   2. (rare) A strike or blow from malicious forces.

• bataylen
• batailloure
• bataillous
• bataillyng

• English: battle
• Scots: battle

• “batail(le (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-29.
• p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.