| 单词 | floating battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfloating 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 out of or from battery: (a gun) withdrawn for the purpose of loading.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. floating battery floating battery n. (a) a vessel fitted up and used as a battery; (b) (see quot. 1910). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > floating battery floating battery1695 pram1715 cheese box1855 monitor1863 1695 London Gaz. No. 3073/2 They..have made also two Floating Batteries with 20 Pieces of Cannon upon them. 1803 Naval Chron. 9 495 She is fitting as a floating-battery. 1866 E. A. Pollard Southern Hist. War I. 60 The floating battery dismounted two of the parapet guns [of Fort Sumter]. 1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. Floating Battery, a storage battery employed in a parallel system to discharge into or be charged by the system as required. < as lemmas |
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