Meaning of battering train | Babel Free

Definitions

A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.

historical

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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