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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 530 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATTEL, or BATTELS (of uncertain origin, possibly connected with " See also:battle," a nogthern See also:English word meaning to feed, or " See also:batten ") , a word used at See also:Oxford University for the See also:food ordered by members of the See also:college as distinct from the usual See also:commons "; and hence college accounts for See also:board and provisions supplied from See also:kitchen and See also:buttery, and, generally, the whole of a See also:man's college accounts . " Batteler," now a See also:resident in a college, was originally a See also:rank of students between commoners and servitors who, as the name implies, were not supplied with " commons," but only such provisions as they ordered for themselves .

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