batful

• batfull (obsolete)

From Middle English batful, badfull, perhaps from Old English *batfull, equivalent to bat (“to improve"; as in "battle, batten”) +‎ -ful. Compare also Old Norse bati (“improvement, profit, usefulness”).

batful (comparative more batful, superlative most batful)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 3 p. 47:

     The batfull pastures fenc’t, and most with quickset mound,
     The sundry sorts of soyle, diversitie of ground;

• battle
• batten