battering train
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations.
Example Sentences
- "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."