Contextualizebeta

batful

adj

Etymology

From Middle English batful, badfull, perhaps from Old English *batfull, equivalent to bat (“to improve"; as in "battle, batten”) + -ful. Compare also Old Norse bati (“improvement, profit, usefulness”).

  1. inherited from *batfull✻
  2. inherited from batful

Definitions

  1. Rich

    Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.

    • The batfull pastures fenc’t, and most with quickset mound, / The sundry sorts of soyle, diversitie of ground; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for batful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA