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Battery

noun

(pl. batteries)

Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place.

A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series. Synonym: electric battery.

A collection of related things intended for use together.

A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher.

A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores. Synonym: stamp battery.

The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target. Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling. "The shelling went on for hours without pausing"

An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact. Synonym: assault and battery.

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... an honest brute At law his neighbours prosecute, Bring action for assault and battery Or friends beguile with lies ...

— The Human Side of Animals • Royal Dixon

... chorus. The youth and his fellows were frozen to silence. They could see a flag that tossed in the smoke angrily. Near it were the blurred and agitated forms of troops. There came a turbulent stream of men across the fields. A battery changing position at a frantic gallop scattered ...

— The Red Badge of Courage - An Episode of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... was your girl!" Thus Bo unmasked her battery. And Helen could not imagine how Carmichael would ever resist that and the soft, ...

— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey

... the evening of April 21, 1863, disclosed. He had bribed the New York City Common Council to give to the New York and Harlem Railroad a perpetual franchise for a street railway on Broadway from the Battery to Union Square. He had done what Solomon Kipp and others had done, in 1852, when they had spent $50,000 in bribing the aldermen to give them a franchise for surface lines on Sixth avenue and Eighth avenue; [Footnote: See presentment of Grand Jury of February 26, 1853, and ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... center of the crack beneath the door. If it fell to one side the man might be an enemy, and therefore they would stand at one side of the room, their hands upon the butt of the six-gun, and shout: "Come in." Such was the battery of glances from the men, and the color of Pierre ...

— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

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