Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The beating of woods and bushes to flush game.
- noun A hunt in which this is done.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of hunting in which the game is driven from cover by beaters toward a point where the sportsmen are in wait.
- noun Hence Any beat-up or thorough search, or undiscriminating slaughter, especially of defenseless or unresisting crowds.
- noun The game driven from cover by the battue method.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
- noun The game itself.
- noun The wanton slaughter of game.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
hunting in which game is forced into the open by thebeating of sticks on bushes etc. - noun The
game thus forced into the open. - noun A hunt performed in this manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indiscriminate slaughter
- noun a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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| On page 321, the word battue is not a typographical error.
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
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| A battue is a hunt in which beaters force the game to |
On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913
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I have seen many old libraries, the doors of which remained unopened from week's end to week's end; where you inhaled the dust of paper-decay with every breath, and could not take up a book without sneezing; where old boxes, full of older literature, served as preserves for the bookworm, without even an autumn "battue" to thin the breed.
The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857
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On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been ordered.
Les Miserables 2008
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He had no quarrel with me, for he used to give me a meal when I went out hunting in that direction; and once he turned out a hundred of his young men, and I had a great battue of wild dogs.
Prester John 2005
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On the other hand, when an author of the third or rare class writes, it is like a battue.
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June to September, the villagers sally forth en masse for a battue of elephants, whose spoils bring various luxuries from the coast.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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A gin (the last female native of Dunk Island) who died in 1900 was wont to tell of the final battue at Timana, and the feast that followed, in which she took part as a child.
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"Then we might yet get two or three beasts out of this failed battue?"
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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They found a school of -- not exactly fish -- and cooperated in a battue.
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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