| 单词 | to plant battery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto plant battery 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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