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单词 screw battery
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screw battery
screw battery n. Obsolete (a) a screw ship fitted out with a battery for military use (see battery n. 4a); (b) an assemblage of screw guns, positioned ready for use; a military unit armed with this.
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1848 Naut. Standard 12 Feb. 103/1 The Blenheim, at a cost of more than her hull is worth, has been made a screw-battery.
1857 Hampshire Advertiser & Salisbury Guardian 4 Jan. 8/5 The Devastation, 6, paddle, Captain Marshall, in company with the Terror, floating screw battery, arrived in Bermuda.
?1881 Suppl. Voyle's Mil. Dict. 26/2 The screw battery did excellent service in the last Afghan war.
1906 Idler Mag. July 440/1 Trefusis, waking, heard the clank of the gun-gear as the screw batteries moved off, the scramble and tramp of feet past his tent.
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