battering train
battering train noun: a train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.
Noun
battering train (plural battering trains)
- A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.
- When the fire reached this barrier, it was compelled to pause, until a concentration of its heat could overcome the moisture, like an army impatiently waiting the operations of a battering train, to open its way to death and desolation.1823, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XXXVII, in The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Wiley; […], →OCLC
- Be that as it might, numberless great guns, whose thunder had long been the voice of battle,—the artillery of the Armada, the battering-trains of Marlborough, and the adverse cannon of Napoleon and Wellington,—were trundled into the midst of the fire.1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth’s Holocaust”, in Mosses from an Old Manse. […], part II, New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, published 1846, →OCLC, page 141
Forms of battering train
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Questions about battering train
- What does battering train mean?
- Battering train means a train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.
- What part of speech is battering train?
- Battering train is a noun.
- What is the plural of battering train?
- The plural of battering train is battering trains.
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