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Battery

noun

(pl. batteries)

Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place.

A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series. Synonym: electric battery.

A collection of related things intended for use together.

A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher.

A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores. Synonym: stamp battery.

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"

An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact. Synonym: assault and battery.

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... leaden haze of fearful anticipation, the horror of the impending trial had seemed unendurable to the proud and sensitive girl, whom the Sheriff placed on a seat fronting the sea of curious faces, the battery of scrutinizing eyes turned on her from the jury-box. Four months of dread had unnerved her, yet now when the cruel actuality seized her in its iron grasp, that superb strength which the inevitable lends to conscious innocence, so steeled ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... being made able by the grace of God for their standing, and being also coupled and compacted together with the biggest bands or thickest beams that the Holy Ghost puts forth to bind and hold this church together. And there is reason for it. The church is God's tower or battery by which he beateth down Antichrist, or if you will have it in the words of the prophet, 'Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war; for with thee [saith God] will I break in pieces,' &c. (Jer 51:19,20). Wherefore, since the church is ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... a very effective way, too," rejoined Mr. Ackerman. "In June of 1847 a tremendously exciting race took place between the Oregon and the Vanderbilt, then a new boat, for a thousand dollars a side. The steamers left the Battery at eleven o'clock in the morning and a dense crowd turned out to see them start. For thirty miles they kept abreast; then the Oregon gained half a length and in passing the other boat bumped into her, damaging her wheelhouse. It was ...

— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett

... resolved that he and his four hundred and fifty men would do what they could to defend the town. They were encamped on an estate called 'Little England,' a short distance southwest of Hampton, and had a heavy battery of seven guns, the ...

— Elsie's Vacation and After Events • Martha Finley

... of influence minutely marked. A kind of telegraphic communication is established with the remotest stations in South Africa and Siberia, and with almost every nook in our own land, to which the myrmidons of Papal power look with the most of fear. It is through means of this moral galvanic battery, set up in the Vatican, that the Church of Rome has gained its power of UBIQUITY—has so well nigh made itself ...

— Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal • Sarah J Richardson

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