battling

noun

1. A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
2. That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
3. (countable, uncountable)Engagement in combat, fighting; struggling.
4. (countable, uncountable)Struggling to make a life; doing it hard.

   “We felt sorry for the old pioneer, after a life-time of hard battling.”

adj

1. Nourishing; fattening.

   “Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]”

2. Fertile.
3. Engaged in battle.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, present)present participle of battle