Properly guns whose weight and power fit them for demolishing by direct force the works of the enemy; hence all heavy, as distinguished from field or light, guns come under the term. (See siege-artillery and garrison guns.)
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Batter>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·- A train of artillery for siege operations. ...
·noun A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. II. Battering-ram ·noun An engine ...
(Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for maki...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See ram. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The train of heavy ordnance necessary for a siege, which, since the copious introduction of vertical...
Such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns. ...
These are more powerful than those intended for the field; and formerly nearly coincided with naval ...
Fired at intervals of a minute each during the progress of important funerals. ...
Those cast expressly for sea-service. ...
A nautical phrase implying ordnance too heavy for a ship's scantling, or a fort over-gunned. ...
Recently invented guns of great strength, specially adapted to meet the requirements of rifled artil...
To extract the charge of wad, shot, and cartridge from the guns. ...
A kind of portable priming, for insertion into the vent, of various patterns. (See friction-tube, ...
The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...
Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...
The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...