Battering train

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• battering train

  The train of heavy ordnance necessary for a siege, which, since the copious introduction of vertical...

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• Battering

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Batter>>. ...

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• Train

  ·v The tail of a bird. II. Train ·v A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. III. Train ·v The after par...

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• train

  (Fr. traineau.) A peculiar kind of sleigh used for the transportation of merchandise, wood, &c., in ...

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• Battering-ram

  ·noun A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. II. Battering-ram ·noun An engine ...

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• Battering-ram

  (Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for maki...

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• battering guns

  Properly guns whose weight and power fit them for demolishing by direct force the works of the enemy...

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• battering ram

  See ram. ...

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• Corridor train

  ·add. ·- A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous co...

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• Express train

  ·add. ·- Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train ru...

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• Train dispatcher

  ·add. ·- An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right ...

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• Train oil

  ·- Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling. ...

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• Up-train

  ·- A train going in the direction conventionally called up. II. Up-train ·- A train going in the di...

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• Vestibuled train

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Vestibule train, under <<Vestibule>>. ...

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• bridge-train

  An equipment for insuring the passage of troops over a river. Pontooners. (See pontoon.) ...

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• siege-train

  Properly, the whole of the material, with its transport, required for carrying on a siege; but more ...

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• train-tackle

  A tackle which is during action hooked to an eye-bolt in the train of a gun-carriage, and to a ring-...

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• train or trail of artillery

  A certain number of pieces of ordnance, completely mounted and fitted with appurtenances and retinue...

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