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Em·bat·tle v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embattled p. pr. & vb. n. Embattling ] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
One in bright arms embattled full strong. --Spenser.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world. --Emerson.
Em·bat·tled a.
1. Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.]
2. Her. Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
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embattled
adj 1: beset with attackers or controversy or conflict; "embattled
troops"; "an embattled governor"
2: prepared for battle; "an embattled city"
3: having repeated square indentations like those in a
battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: crenelated, crenelate,
crenellated, crenellate, indented]