| 单词 | sunken battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunken battery sunken battery n. Military (now chiefly historical) a field battery whose emplacement is situated below ground level; cf. sense 5c. ΘΚΠ 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 1817 C. W. Pasley Course Mil. Instr. II. ix. 153 There is another kind of field battery also very frequently used, which is called a sunken battery. 1818 E. Lake Jrnl. 23 Apr. (1825) iv. 103 Instead of forming a sunken battery as was intended, we were obliged to construct an elevated one. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. viii. 340 The rocky nature of the soil..rendered it necessary to carry up earth for the formation of an elevated, instead of a sunken battery. 2003 C. Henry Brit. Napoleonic Artillery II. 39 A sunken battery, as its name makes clear, was excavated below the level of the ground. < as lemmas |
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