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Battling vs Tackling - What's the difference?

battling | tackling |

As nouns the difference between battling and tackling

is that battling is a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening while tackling is the tackle of a vessel.

As verbs the difference between battling and tackling

is that battling is while tackling is .

As an adjective battling

is nourishing; fattening.

battling

English

Etymology 1

From .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Nourishing; fattening.
  • * 1873 , Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists :
    • 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, [...]
  • Fertile.

    • Etymology 2

    From battle.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    tackling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tackle of a vessel.