battle cry (batlkri)

A cry or shout of troops engaged in battle. battled1 (bat'ld), p. a. 1. Ranged in battle array; disposed in order of battle. - 2. Contested; fought. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, Dream of battled fields no more. Scott , L. of the L., i. 31. battled2 (bat'ld), a. 1. Furnished or strengthened with battlements. Batailled as it were a castel wal. The battled tower. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 40. Tennyson, Fair Women. 2. In her., broken in the form of battlements: said (a) of any horizontal line dividing the field; (b) of a bar or fe e, when one side only is broken in this way. Also embattled. See cut under embattled. - Battled arrondi, in her., having the heads of the battlements curved or rounded. Battled counter, in her., same as counter - embattled. Battled embattled, in her., doubly battled, or battled in steps. Also called grady and battled grady.