batteryn.
/ˈbat(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbædəri/ I. Senses relating to the action of beating.† 2. The beating of drums; sometimes a particular kind of drum-beat, perhaps that giving the signal for an assault. Obsolete.† 3. † c. battery piece or piece of battery: a siege gun.
1. The action of beating or battering.† b. A mark of beating; a wound or bruise. Obsolete.
a. An assailing with blows: spec. in Law, an unlawful attack upon another by beating or wounding, including technically the slightest touching of another's person or clothes in a menacing manner.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > unlawful violence > assault
assault1447
battery1531
striking1541
tusslement1597
tussle1629
common assault1743
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. i. sig. Xviii Intermedlynge..Sometyme..is violent, as batry [1557 batrye], open murdre.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. i. 33 Ile haue an action of Battery against him. View more context for this quotation
1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. ii. 9 Charged with a Battery by a much stouter Man than himself.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 127 Murder, to say nothing of assault and battery, has been..an everyday matter.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise
brusurea1375
frousshure1477
bruise1533
wan1533
battering1558
squat1578
intuse1590
battery1594
crush1601
contusiona1616
sugillation1623
mishanter1754
stone bruise1805
rainbow1810
birze1818
pound1862
strawberry1921
1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Dv For where a heart is hard they make no battry.
1639 J. Mayne City Match i. iv, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XIII. 218 Lets feel: No batteries in thy head, to signify Th' art a constable.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > [noun]
taboringa1400
drumming1541
battery1591
tucking1632
beating1656
stickwork1786
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 118 The most fit and apt time..ought to be shewed by..stroke or batterie of drums to the footemen.
1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 16 The Drum doth beat..a Call, a March, a Troope, a Battalia, a Charge, a Retrait, a Batterie, a Reliefe.
a. A succession of heavy blows inflicted upon the walls of a city or fortress by means of artillery; bombardment. to plant battery: to prepare for such an attack. to lay battery to: to carry it into execution. to change one's battery: to change the direction of attack. Obsolete exc. figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment
battery1548
cannonade1562
cannonading1637
bombarding1687
bomb battery1695
bombardment1702
cannon fire1725
bombard1807
shelling1860
hate1915
barrage1916
box barrage1916
creeping barrage1916
area bombardment1918
area shoot1919
shoot1941
stonk1944
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard
ding1548
to lay battery to1548
cannon1567
thunder1590
cannonade1637
bombard1686
bomb1694
shell1827
plonk1874
plaster1914
bump1915
labour1915
water1915
barragea1917
paste1942
stonk1944
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxixv The battery of the walles discorages vs not.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 25 Planting battrie to my fort.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 304 He laid battrie to the wall foure daies.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 656 By Batterie, Scale, and Mine, Assaulting. View more context for this quotation
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 275 The most violent battery would have weaken'd their walls.
b. transferred or figurative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > attack by hostile measures or words
bruntc1425
assaultc1449
battery1562
onset1566
brash1573
breach1578
onslaught1613
onfall1646
attack1653
assay?1705
to return to the charge1752
arietation1797
set-to1808
set1829
dead set1835
go-in1858
on-ding1871
hatchet work1938
blitzkrieg1939
blitz1940
carpet bombing1956
bowling1959
1562 J. Veron (title) A Strong Battery against the Idolatrous Inuocation of the Dead Saintes.
1640 Ld. Digby Speech Parl. 9 Nov. 4 Mischiefs which have..layed battery either to our Estates or Consciences.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 3 The scaling of the swelling Surges, and constant Battery of the Tide.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. xix. 559 Plato..changes his battery, and says something against these enemies.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > siege-piece
piece of battery1570
siege-piece1801
siege-gun1858
1570 Sir R. Constable in Lodge Illustr. Brit. Hist. (1838) I. 509 With three battery pieces..went to the siege of Hume.
1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 18 Was it ill done to fill the Tower, with..great pieces of battery?
II. The apparatus used in battering or beating.
4.
a. A number of pieces of artillery placed in juxtaposition for combined action; in Military use, the smallest division of artillery for tactical purposes (corresponding to a company of infantry).Technically, including also the artillerymen who work the guns, the drivers, and horses. In horse batteries, the gunners are carried partly on the carriages and partly on horses, in field batteries wholly on the carriages; garrison batteries are bodies of artillerymen serving heavy guns in forts or coast batteries.
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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
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > artillery-company > part of
battery1861
subsection1907
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xi. 246 To plante bateries, make Ladders, and suche other thinges necessarie for the siege.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 163 He will begin to work his batteries.
1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 286 You will have a breaching battery of two 18 pounders and one 12 pounder.
1861 Man. Artill. Exerc. 102 The centre battery halts when the rear battery wheels to the left.
b. figurative, esp. in to turn any one's battery against himself.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > source of ability or power to attack
to turn any one's battery against himself1581
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 82 b Three wordes onely may suffice to overthrow the whole Battrye of these three Invectives.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 78 The fellow who accused him, has had his own battery turned upon himself.
1823 C. Lamb On Acting of Munden in Elia 339 You think he has exhausted his battery of looks.
c. In baseball, applied to the pitcher and catcher (originally used of the pitcher alone). Also attributive. U.S.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > pitcher and catcher
battery1867
1867 Ball Players' Chron. 6 June 2/2 He soon resumed his position, once more facing the battery of Lovett.
1886 H. Chadwick Art of Pitching & Fielding 8 The ‘battery’ of a club's team, that is the pitcher and catcher.
1897 Daily News 29 July 9/2 So good was the fielding and battery work..that no scoring took place.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 14 May ii. 5/1 Pitcher Ed McGrath went the distance and battery mate, Tony Carderelli, drove in four runs in the Boston State victory.
5.
a. The platform or fortified work, on or within which artillery is mounted (sometimes including the guns or mortars there mounted).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > firing platform for artillery
platform1535
battery1590
terreplein1591
barbette1823
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. H5v The bringing of our ordinance..into the battery.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2378/3 We had finished a Battery of three Mortars.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine sig. Hh2 Those [sc. guns] on the lower battery are 32 pounders.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VI. 346 The batteries and works erecting at Cadiz.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. iv. 70 She continued her destructive fire..from the main deck battery.
b. transferred or figurative.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > that with or from which one attacks
battery1581
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius Before you had raysed your Battrye agaynst Luther.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 89 These [burning] mountains are as so many batteries, planted by Providence in several parts of the earth.
1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Struct. & Origin Humane Bodies: Pt. II 6 The Towers and Batteries that the Atheists have raised against Heaven.
c. An oblong box or boat submerged to the brim, used in wildfowl shooting; = sink n.1 14. Also attributive, as battery-gunner, battery-shooting. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > place to shoot from
standa1425
standinga1425
batterya1841
shooting-hole1850
butt1880
box1884
a1841 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes (1842) I. 198 A machine, or battery, is a wooden box of the necessary dimensions to let a man lie down upon his back, just tightly fitting enough to let him rise again.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Battery, a sort of boat used for duck-shooting... It is also called..a Surface-boat, Sink, or Box.
1866 Game Laws Va. in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 144 Any person shooting or using a skiff, box or battery while hunting wild fowl.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 71 I shall describe that in reference to battery-shooting.
1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 120 But this is nothing to the numbers slain by the battery; and we have known one battery to kill over three hundred fowl in a tide.
1875 Fur, Fin & Feather 122 The battery gunner..has a great advantage over the fowler who shoots from the shore.
1885 Forest & Stream 1 Jan. 441 One of the commonest and most successful methods of killing fowl along the seaboard is from batteries.
1885 Forest & Stream 1 Jan. 441 Some plan of action by which battery-shooting could be wholly done away with.
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.
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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.
7. Mining. The set of stamps, usually five in number, that work in one ‘mortar’ of a stamp-mill.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for treating ores > [noun] > for crushing ore > stamp > series of
battery1853
stamp-battery1875
1853 Harper's Mag. Apr. 578/2 Openings in this opposite each cover or battery of stamps.
1861 J. S. Hittell Mining in Pacific States 160 In the Sierra Buttes mills two-thirds of the gold is caught in the batteries.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxxvi. 252 These [six rods] rose and fell, one after the other,..in an iron box called a ‘battery’... One of us stood by the battery all day long.
1881 S. Jennings Visit Gold Fields Wynaad viii. 69 Eight batteries of five gravitation stamps each.
1884 Cent. Mag. 27 923 Batteries, where the quartz is pounded into white mud.
8. Dyeing. (See quots.)
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > equipment used
litting-lead1485–6
vat1548
battery1737
deviling1737
winch1740
shaker1791
pastel-vat1838
wince1839
wincing-machine1839
tin-vat1865
jigger1893
jig1942
1737 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 3) at Anil The second [vat] is called the Battery..It is in the second that they agitate and beat this Water impregnated and loaded with the Salts of the plant [Indigo].
1815 Encycl. Brit. X. 287/2 A battery, consisting of a kettle, containing water slightly acidulated with sulphuric acid.
III. (From sense 4.) A combination of simple instruments, usually to produce a compound instrument of increased power; applied originally with a reference to the discharge of electricity from such a combination.figurative.1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 189/2 Till your whole vital Electricity..is cut into two isolated portions of Positive and Negative (of Money and of Hunger); and stands there bottled up in two World-Batteries!
9. An apparatus consisting of a number of Leyden jars so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored
aumbry1356
promptuary?a1425
repository1485
staple1523
magazine1583
reposement1592
repertory1593
rendezvous1608
reserve1612
conservatory1624
reconditory1633
dormerc1640
stowagea1641
depositum1646
repositary1650
magazine storehousea1654
deposit1719
reservoir1739
battery1748
depository1750
storage1775
depot1795
depositary1797
repertorium1797
rua1831
stowaway1913
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > consisting of leyden jars
battery1748
1748 B. Franklin Let. in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1751) 26 An electrical battery, consisting of eleven panes of large sash-glass, arm'd with thin leaden plates.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 340 When a number of Jars are thus connected it is called a battery.
10. An apparatus consisting of a series of cells, each containing the essentials for producing voltaic electricity, connected together. Also used of any such apparatus for producing voltaic electricity, whether of one cell or more.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun]
electric battery1774
pile1800
battery1801
trough1806
voltaic battery1812
voltaic pile1812
magnetomotor1823
trough battery1841
gas battery1843
gravity battery1870
sand-battery1873
Bunsen battery1879
gravitation battery1883
magazine batterya1884
perfluent batterya1884
1801 Sir H. Davy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 400 The third and most powerful class of Galvanic batteries..is formed, when metallic substances, oxidable in acids..are connected, as plates, with oxidating fluids.
1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 162 Zinc, copper, and nitric acid form a powerful battery.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 190/1 No arrangement equals Grove's platina battery.
11. Optics. A combined series of lenses or prisms.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > series of lenses
triplet1837
battery1867
1867–77 G. F. Chambers Descriptive Astron. An eye-piece..intermediate between the 1st and 2nd of the ‘battery.’
1879 H. W. Warren Recreations in Astron. iii. 49 The best instruments pass the beam of light through a series of prisms called a battery.
12.
a. Apparatus for preparing or serving meals. Also batterie de cuisine (see batterie n. 2).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun]
kitchenware1612
kitchen trade1693
batterie de cuisine1773
battery1819
kitchenry1845
mess kit1854
kitchenalia1924
1819 A. Rees Cycl. III. at Battery Some make battery for the kitchen, batterie de cuisine, comprehend all utensils for the service of the kitchen, whether of iron, brass, copper, or other matters.
1883 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Apr. 695/1 Our tea battery came in.
1884 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Aug. 334/2 The feasting batteries of the..guilds.
b. A set of pans used in sugar-boiling.
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1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 33 The largest [kettle] is called the grande..and the last the battery.
1886 Harper's Mag. June 80/2 These processes..are effected by what is known as a ‘battery’ of open pans or ‘taches’.
13.
a. Used gen. for a collection of similar pieces of apparatus grouped together as a set (see quots.).
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance > set of
companion1843
kit1859
battery1885
instrumentarium1893
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 163/2 The earliest and crudest system of evaporation was the ‘copper wall’, or ‘battery’ of open pans called ‘teaches’ (taches, tayches, &c.).
1911 D. S. Hulfish Cycl. Motion-pict. Work II. 137 The remaining proportion of light may be supplied by lighting a partial battery of lamps.
1920 Sci. Amer. 2 Oct. 346 (caption) A battery of projectors and a stereopticon machine in the operator's booth of a leading motion-picture theatre.
1931 Economist 25 Apr. 888/2 There are batteries of forty looms each.
1958 Engineering 18 Apr. 509/1 When the Coal Board took over there were 45 ovens..in two batteries of 15 and 30.
b. A series of psychological or clinical tests.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [noun] > series of tests
battery1921
1921 Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. XV. ii. ii. 316 If a test correlated almost perfectly with some other test in the battery, it could be omitted without loss.
1928 K. J. Holzinger Statist. Methods in Educ. xv. 310 The writers..eliminate certain tests..and thus obtain a shorter and possibly as good a test with unweighted items as with the whole battery.
1930 K. J. Holzinger Statist. Resumé Spearman Two-factor Theory 42 Two arithmetic tests or two opposite tests should not be used in a given battery.
1940 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 358 This is the estimated reliability of the battery formed by the straight sum of its constituent tests.
1961 Lancet 26 Aug. 487/1 I also heartily endorse his call for a refinement in the constituent subtests of psychological batteries.
c. A series of hutches, cages, or nesting-boxes in which laying hens are confined for intensive laying or poultry reared and fattened. Later extended to denote accommodation for fattening cattle; frequently attributive, as battery hen, battery system.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > laying house, hatchery, etc.
rearing house1824
sitting room1850
hatchery1857
brooding-room1884
eggery1910
laying house1913
battery1931
1931 G. W. Wrentmore Battery Syst. Poultry Keeping 27 The system is best carried out with birds that have been in Batteries from the start.
1931 G. W. Wrentmore Battery Syst. Poultry Keeping 27 The battery is commenced at a temperature of 90–94 degrees and gradually lowered to a temperature of about 65 degrees as the size of the chicks increases.
1938 Reader's Digest Mar. 93/1 The smallest complete battery..fills a 14-by-20-foot space.
1940 N. Mitford Pigeon Pie ix. 138 Those raising hens on the battery system.
1953 A. Watkyn For Better, For Worse ii. i It ain't right to ask 'uman beings to live like Battery Hens.
1958 Observer 19 Oct. 17/4 They [sc. geese] defy horrible human plans to mass-produce in battery and deep scratch.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 78/1 We are going to hear more of battery beef.
1960 News Chron. 8 June 4/4 The broiler battery..may be good business, but is..revolting.
1961 Guardian 17 May 3/5 It was doubtful if..battery eggs were less nutritious than other eggs.
IV. Senses relating to beaten metal.attributive.1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 252 Kettell of battre mettell.1802 A. Rees Cycl. (at cited word) Battery-works include pots, saucepans, kettles..which though cast at first, are to be afterwards hammered or beaten into form.1885 Birmhm. Directory The Birmingham Battery and Metal Company.
14. Metal, or articles of metal, especially of brass or copper, wrought by hammering.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > product of > made by hammering
batteryc1503
batter1567
kettle-fats1812
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxvi/1 Batery for the bale xij.d.
1577 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 414 ij panes of battrye weyinge xvlb.
1742 H. Hines Specif. Patent 462 Raising copper battery cold in common battery mills.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 107 Black Latten..and Battery... This last is known by the dint of the mill-hammers upon the kettles.
V. [Compare Old French baterie ‘sorte de rempart’ (Godefroy); ? an extension of 5; or can it be related to batter v.2 ?]
15. An embankment.
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [noun] > embanking > an embankment
wharf10..
mounding1691
banking1776
sunka1784
embankment1786
battery1799
fill1850
earth fill1877
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 276 A battery of stone, to join another island to the main land.
1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 156 The expense of cuts and batteries (since called cuttings and embankments) on the different..lines.
16. Mining.
a. A bulkhead of timber.
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 106 Battery,..2. A bulkhead of timber.
b. The plank closing the bottom of a coal-chute. Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881.
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 106 Battery,..3. The plank closing the bottom of a coal-chute.
17. [ < French batterie; compare batterie n. 3] The percussion section of an orchestra.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > collectively
percussion1889
trap1903
battery1926
kitchen1928
kit1929
batterie1934
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz ix. 197 The battery of an orchestra includes so many instruments... Perhaps the most important instruments of the battery are the timpani or kettle drums.
1955 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) ii. 30 A part of the rhythm is kept separate in drum battery.
1960 Times 23 June 17/3 A percussion player..proceeded to exploit a battery including cowbells and finger-cymbals.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
battery-receiver n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radio set > receiver > types of
crystal receiver1910
heterodyne1915
self-heterodyne1915
crystal set1921
crystal radio1922
superheterodyne1922
superhet1924
battery-receiver1928
battery-set1930
mobile unit1961
1928 Wireless World 5 Dec. 754/3 A battery-receiver unit... The H.T. battery can therefore be adapted to serve as the actual receiver, by incorporating in it the necessary coupling unit.
battery-set n.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radio set > receiver > types of
crystal receiver1910
heterodyne1915
self-heterodyne1915
crystal set1921
crystal radio1922
superheterodyne1922
superhet1924
battery-receiver1928
battery-set1930
mobile unit1961
1930 Wireless World 16 July 71/3 (heading) An Ambitious Battery Set.
1933 Boy's Mag. 47 135/2 The Class ‘B’ valve..is of great importance to users of battery sets.
battery-unit n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [noun] > pack of
battery-unit1939
1939 War Illustr. 9 Dec. p. ii/3 This trade, which consists in selling torches that are loaded with worn-out battery-units from wireless sets.
1958 Newnes Compl. Amateur Photogr. x. 112 A flashgun consists of a socket to hold the flashbulb, a case to contain the battery unit and a reflector.
C2.
battery-operated adj.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [adjective] > powered by a battery
cordless1906
battery-operated1930
battery-powered1957
1930 Wireless World 11 June 601/1 Few battery-operated portables consume more than the economical limit of 10 mA.
1964 T. L. Kinsey Audio-typing & Electr. Typewriters iii. 16 Battery-operated machines are also available.
battery-powered adj.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > galvanism, voltaism > voltaic or galvanic battery > [adjective] > powered by a battery
cordless1906
battery-operated1930
battery-powered1957
1957 BBC Handbk. 52 Small self-contained battery-powered tape recorders.
C3.
battery eliminator n. a device incorporating a rectifier which enables a radio set or other apparatus to work using the mains or other alternating electricity supply, eliminating the need for a battery.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radio set > apparatus which eliminates need for a battery
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1924 Lima (Ohio) News 26 Sept. 7/3 The New York Radio World's fair was quite interesting... The outstanding feature seemed to be the different battery eliminators or devices by which the radio receivers can be operated direct from the commercial current supply.
1952 Pop. Mech. Sept. 212 Only a few adjustments of the components are required to use this battery eliminator with most portables, farm sets, or civil-defense communications receivers.
2002 P. Miles Robot Sumo ix. 182 All ESCs [= electronic speed controls] have a battery eliminator circuit (BEC) that can be used to supply power to other electronics.
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battery acid n. dilute sulphuric acid as used in a lead-acid cell as the electrolyte.
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1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 269 (heading) Nature and strength of the battery acid.
1905 School Sci. & Math. 5 272 The battery acid consists of 30 parts sulphuric acid by weight and 70 parts distilled water.
1933 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 62 (caption) ‘Smells like battery acid, to me,’ he added after a moment.
2008 New Scientist 15 Nov. 7/2 In the past month, tracts of wetland at the mouth of the Murray have become as corrosive as battery acid.
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battery charger n. a device which recharges batteries by passing an electric current through them.
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1861 W. S. Harris in Proc. Royal Soc. 1860–2 11 252 The instruments employed..consist of the electrical or Leyden jar; Lane's improved electrometer; the hydrostatic electrometer as recently perfected; the thermo-electrometer; quantity or unit-measure; and battery charger and discharger.
1935 A. R. Nilson & J. L. Hornung Pract. Radio Communication xv. 710 The Tungar battery charger..is a device for charging storage batteries from an alternating-current line.
1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 52/2 Battery-powered laptops now come with intelligent battery chargers.
2005 Disability Now May 45/1 (advt.) Electrically Powered Wheelchair, with battery charger and kerb climber.
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battery pack n. a group of (esp. rechargeable) batteries contained within a casing and used as a power source.
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1934 Algona (Iowa) Upper Des Moines 13 Sept. (advt.) [Radio] complete with all batteries, including 1200-hour ‘B’ Battery pack in one unit.
1965 J. L. Blonstein in D. L. Collins Batteries 2 xxxv. 493 This constraint usually implies careful positioning of the battery packs within the satellite to ensure extremes of temperature are not applied to the package.
1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 595/1 The phone is supplied with three battery packs. Cordless drill... Complete with 2 battery packs.
2010 S. Thirsk Not quite White (2011) 163 I..had to run back to the hotel to fetch the spare battery pack for my laptop.
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