Obs. exc. poet. Forms: 4 batayld, -ailed, -ayled, (Sc.) battalit, 4–5 baytayled, (Sc.) battailyt, 5 batild, 6 batteled, -eld, (Sc.) battelit, 7 batled, 7– battled. [f. BATTLE v.2 + -ED: cf. OF. bataillié now bastillé.]
1. Fortified with battlements; embattled.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B 1183. For þe borȝ watz so bygge baytayled alofte.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 4162. Lest ony tyme it were assayled, Ful wel aboute it was batayled.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XIII. xlviii. 244. Built like a batled wall.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., V. xxix. The castle’s battled verge.
1830. Tennyson, Dream Fair Wom., 220. The valleys of grape-loaded vines that glow Beneath the battled tower.
† 2. transf. Having an edge or outline shaped like a battlement; crenelated. Obs.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nonne Pr. T., 40. His comb was redder than the fyn coral, And batayld, as it were a castel wal.
[1405. Test. Ebor. (1836), I. 318. Unum gobellum … cum operculo batellato. Ibid. (1422[?]), I. 404. j. murreus … cum ligacione batilde.]
