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BATTERING TRAIN

Definition: BATTERING TRAIN

BATTERING TRAIN

1. A train of artillery for siege operations.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: BATTERING TRAIN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arms

Gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom; ten pounder.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: BATTERING TRAIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-i-i-n-n-r-r-t-t-t"

-3 letters: arbitrating, reattaining.

-4 letters: attainting, bitartrate, brigantine, ingratiate, interabang, intreating, retraining.

-5 letters: arbitrage, arbitrate, attaining, bantering, bargainer, bartering, battening, battering, bittering, inebriant, interring, intrigant, iterating, itinerant, narrating, nattering, nitrating, rattening, rebaiting, retaining, retinting, tattering, titrating, tittering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BATTERING TRAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 54 54 45 52 49 4E 47      54 52 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047      0054 0052 0041 0049 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355454395243484125452354348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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