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battering train

noun

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

    • 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.

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