Definition of "battling"

battling¹

noun
plural battlings
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.
adjective
comparative more battling, superlative most battling
1. Nourishing; fattening.
  Quotations
  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.

battling²

verb
1. present participle and gerund of battle