embattled

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EMBAT'TLED, participle passive Arrayed in order of battle. 1. Furnished with battlements; and in heraldry, having the outline resembling a battlement, as an ordinary. 2. Having been the place of battle; as an embattled plain or field.
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