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Masked battery

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a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy.
(Mil.) a battery so placed as not to be seen by an enemy until it opens fire.

See also: Battery Masked



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The presence of these cannibals affected them no more than the soldiers of a masked battery care for the ants that crawl over its front.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
They made, in fact, a masked battery behind the decorous office blinds, and there lay in wait as simply excited as children until at last the stem of the luckless Wetterhorn appeared, beating and rolling at quarter speed over the recently reconstructed pinnacles of Tiffany's.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
My first observation was by way of opening a masked battery.
The Oblong Box by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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