The practice of purchasing food and drink on credit at Oxford or Cambridge University, to be paid for later.
From the verb 'battel' plus the gerund suffix '-ing.' This describes the entire system of provisioning at Oxbridge universities.
The batteling system at Oxford and Cambridge was basically a institutional meal-plan system that lasted for centuries—it shows how universities created their own economic ecosystems separate from the surrounding town.
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