| 单词 | in battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin battery 6. Phrases and locutions. battery-wagon: one in which are carried tools and materials for repair of the battery. cross batteries: two batteries playing upon the same point from different directions. enfilading battery: one which sweeps the whole line attacked. floating battery: a heavily armed and armoured vessel intended for bombarding fortresses. in battery: (a gun) projecting in readiness for firing through an embrasure or over a parapet. masked battery: one screened from the enemy's view by natural or artificial obstacles. out of or from battery: (a gun) withdrawn for the purpose of loading. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [adverb] > projecting over parapet in battery1813 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words > concealed attack masked battery1861 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > battery battery1555 counter-battery1603 swallow's nest1604 field battery1742 radeau1753 guns en barbette1772 half-moon battery1794 sap battery1810 sunken battery1817 screw battery1848 wool-battery1852 masked battery1861 mountain battery1868 machine-gun battery1882 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 487 On what days did you disembark the artillery?.. On what days did you put them in battery? 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. v. 65 Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries,..give gallant summons: to which,..Gibraltar answers Plutonically. 1861 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem III. clxxvii. 214 Do not go probing for ‘masked batteries’ to run your heads against. < as lemmas |
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