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battering trains

battering trains is the plural of battering train.

Meaning of battering train

Noun

battering train (plural battering trains)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about battering trains

What is battering trains the plural of?
Battering trains is the plural of battering train.

Words near battering trains in the dictionary

  1. batteries-included
  2. battering
  3. battering ram
  4. battering rams
  5. battering train
  6. battering trains
  7. batteringly
  8. batterings
  9. batterless
  10. batterlike
  11. Batterman

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