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battleworks en · NOUN

Etymology

From battle + works.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) Protective infrastructure erected to protect weapons and soldiers during battle.
    • The horizon of heaven is felt as a metal battleworks deflecting the arrows of prayer that are sent to soar as pleas for some castle-master's help for forgiveness: My prayer must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away. 1996, David Anthony Downes, Hopkins' achieved self, page 156:
    • "I know what's inside the battleworks," she said. "The biggest, harshest weapons in existence, I know. ..." 2014, Robert Reed, The Memory of Sky, →ISBN:
    • Hearst had his little fingers on Mrs Tovey's ample waist, on what felt through the silk like an ironclad's battleworks. 1961, William Sansom, The last hours of Sandra Lee, page 195: