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ˈcounter-ˌbattery Mil.
[a. F. contre-batterie: cf. counter- 2, 3, 11.]
†1. A counter-attack with artillery. Obs.
1592Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 429 With some few peces of artillerie making counter battery. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 123 And wee made a counterbattery against our enemies for ten dayes space. 1651Howell Venice 103 The besieged did..make so furious a counter-Battery, as, etc. 1670Cotton Espernon i. iv. 156.
b. fig.
15942nd Rep. Dr. Faustus in Thoms Prose Romances (1858) III. 356 Faustus had begun to prepare for the counter⁓battery, determining to throw down upon the assemblies heads, so many heavy charms and conjurations that they should fall down.
2. A battery raised against another. Also fig.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xx. (1632) 41 Provided with a counterbattery of forcible enchantments. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 170/2 They raised a battery of five great guns against the Town, which were dismounted by a Counterbattery of seven guns. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 375/1 That the guns..might be..concealed from the view of the enemy in his counter-battery.
†3. [counter- 11.] A battering of each other.
1643Herle Answ. Ferne 48 He would never have begun this unhappy counterbattery of inke. |