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▸ noun: (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
▸ noun: (military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
▸ noun: (military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
▸ noun: (military, clipping of) battle buddy
▸ verb: (intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
▸ verb: (transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
▸ adjective: Of grass or pasture: nutritious to cattle or sheep; fattening, nourishing.
▸ adjective: (by extension) Of land (originally pastureland) or soil: fertile, fruitful.
▸ verb: To feed or nourish (someone or something).
▸ verb: To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
▸ noun: A habitational surname from Middle English from places in England that have been sites of a battle.
▸ noun: A place name:
▸ noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in Rother district, East Sussex, England; supposed site of the Battle of Hastings (OS grid ref TQ7416).
▸ noun: A hamlet in Yscir community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0131).
▸ noun: A river in Saskatchewan, Canada
▸ noun: (historical) A former unincorporated community in Carbon County, Washington, United States.
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fight,
combat,
conflict,
struggle,
engagement,
skirmish,
batlle,
duel,
battleground,
showdown,
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