battuen.

Brit.

/baˈt(j)uː/, U.S.

/bæˈtu/

Forms: Also 1800s battu.

Etymology: French (= Provençal batuda , Italian battuta , Latin type batūta ) ‘a beating, a beat-up,’ noun formed on feminine past participial of battre to beat. (Analogous to those in -ade suffix.)

1. The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a point where a number of sportsmen wait to shoot them.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > beating, etc.

stablyc1400

ring-walk1575

breviting1600

battue1816

beat1876

bush-drive1899

1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 414 The keen Sportsman..and a favoured few, on a set day, have the Grand Battu.

1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 485 A battue is a contrivance for killing the largest quantity of game in the smallest time, with the least amount of trouble, by a small select party.

attributive.1849 R. Cobden Speeches 52 That modern innovation of battue shooting, which was not known in 1790.

2. transferred.

a. A beat up, a thorough search.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > rummaging or thorough searching > an act of

oversearch1490

rummage1733

battue1854

poke-out1874

1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola i. viii. 43 Ordered a grand general battue through every part of the house where Syra had been.

b. Wholesale slaughter, esp. of unresisting crowds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]

sleightc893

wal-slaught?a900

qualeeOE

deathOE

swordc1000

morthOE

slaughta1225

destroyingc1300

drepingc1300

martyrdomc1325

murderc1325

mortc1330

sleighterc1330

slaughter1338

iron and firea1387

murraina1387

manslaughtera1400

martyre?a1400

quella1425

occision?a1430

decease1513

destruction1526

slaughting1535

butchery?1536

butchering1572

massacrea1578

slaughterdom1592

slaughtering1597

carnage1600

massacring1600

slaughtery1604

internecion1610

decimationa1613

destroy1616

trucidation1623

stragea1632

sword-wrack1646

interemption1656

carnifice1657

panolethry1668

butcher work1808

bloodbath1814

populicide1824

man-slaughtering1851

battue1864

mass murder1917

genocide1944

overkill1957

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 162 The great battue of St. Bartholomew's Day.

3. The game thus driven from cover.

ΚΠ

1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	battue
释义	battuen. Brit. /baˈt(j)uː/, U.S. /bæˈtu/ Forms: Also 1800s battu. Etymology: French (= Provençal batuda , Italian battuta , Latin type batūta ) ‘a beating, a beat-up,’ noun formed on feminine past participial of battre to beat. (Analogous to those in -ade suffix.) 1. The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a point where a number of sportsmen wait to shoot them. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > beating, etc. stablyc1400 ring-walk1575 breviting1600 battue1816 beat1876 bush-drive1899 1816 Gentleman's Mag. 86 i. 414 The keen Sportsman..and a favoured few, on a set day, have the Grand Battu. 1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 485 A battue is a contrivance for killing the largest quantity of game in the smallest time, with the least amount of trouble, by a small select party. attributive.1849 R. Cobden Speeches 52 That modern innovation of battue shooting, which was not known in 1790. 2. transferred. a. A beat up, a thorough search. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > rummaging or thorough searching > an act of oversearch1490 rummage1733 battue1854 poke-out1874 1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola i. viii. 43 Ordered a grand general battue through every part of the house where Syra had been. b. Wholesale slaughter, esp. of unresisting crowds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. iv. 162 The great battue of St. Bartholomew's Day. 3. The game thus driven from cover. ΚΠ 1849 in B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 3) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1816
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