| 单词 | masked battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmasked 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 out of or from battery: (a gun) withdrawn for the purpose of loading.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. masked battery b. Military. Concealed from the view of the enemy. Chiefly in masked battery (see mask v.4 2b). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [adjective] > concealed masked1759 1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 52 Mr. Addison, to vent his spleen against Mr. Pope by the means of a masked battery. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iv. 58 You shall..burst out upon the miscreant like a masqued battery. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 462 A masked battery, intended to cover the harbour and town of Paramabiro. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Proc. E. India House 145/2 The attempt which was made to annihilate an inquiry of such importance, by the masked battery of an amendment. 1847 F. S. Edwards Campaign in New Mexico 115 A cloud of white smoke curls gracefully upwards from a hitherto masked battery to the right. 1861 Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) 24 July 3/5 The federals advanced gradually among the masked batteries. 1918 Stars & Stripes 1 Mar. 3/2 An unusually large number of balloons will be concentrated as secretly as possible in masked camp in order not to betray what is about to take place. < as lemmas |
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