Battle a. : Fertile. See Battel, a.

Battle v. t. : A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.

Battle v. t. : A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.

Battle v. t. : A division of an army; a battalion.

Battle v. t. : The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.

Battle n. : To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.

Battle v. t. : To assail in battle; to fight.

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Taxonomy
battle, combat, army, aircraft, decisive battle, history, troops, fight, naval battles, duration, World War I, naval warfare, Dupuy, soldiers, terrain, losses, the Battle of Waterloo, military forces.

Defination from the web:
battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, wherein each group will seek to defeat the others within the scope of a military campaign, and are well defined in duration, area and force commitment.[1] ...