“Police have announced a new battleground for their war on anti-social behaviour in the borough.”
“The Ryder Cup has not just been a battleground for the rival teams, the competition has also fuelled some bitter internal feuds.”
“This is a grimly powerful, unsentimental picture, not least in showing what a battleground school can be.”
batteler
(obsolete) A student at Oxford University who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, almost equivalent to a sizar at Cambridge.
“That is what Battlezone is all about but an attractively-packaged game with a natty instruction manual doesn't change the fact that it is a sheep in wolf's clothing.”