| 单词 | jackass battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackass battery jackass battery n. U.S. Military (now historical) (a) a military unit which uses mules to transport equipment; (b) a battery of light guns typically transported over hilly country by mules. ΚΠ 1861 Steubenville (Ohio) Weekly Herald 11 Dec. The usual quiet of this town was interrupted, yesterday, by the passing through the place of Capt. Howe's Jackass Battery. 1871 J. M. Gould Hist. 1st-10th-29th Maine Regiment xix. 152 They had along with them the mountain howitzer or ‘Jackass’ battery. 1914 Bellman 22 Aug. 245/2 This poor jackass battery had always come in for a deal of good-natured joking at home. 1963 N. B. Wiltsey Brave Warriors i. 57 Sharpshooters knocked out Miles's ‘jackass battery’ by killing the mules and riders, and the guns were abandoned. 2013 P. E. Faller Indiana Jackass Regiment Civil War viii. 87 The Jackass Battery fired a few shells into a sugar house and surrounding cane field. < as lemmas |
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