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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Battery, n. Also: batterie, battry, -rie, -re, batrie. [e.m.E. battery, -erie, batery (1502), also battrie, -rye, batrye (1531), F. batterie, f. batter, to beat.]
1. A battery of, or by, cannon, etc.?1438 Alex. ii. 487 (he set his battreis to our wallis). 1558-66 Knox II. 55 (till the battery be in reddenes). 1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 360 (quhatsumevir sal happin to fall be battrie). 1570 Leslie 231 (he laid the battre apoun the south eist pairt). 1615 Highland P. III. 183 (discouragit be the effect of the battrie).
2. Beaten metal; articles made of this.14.. Acts I. 306/2.
A dusane of pannys of battry 1500 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 242.
ij doussoun of pannis of battry 1548 Ib. II. 133.
He confessit the blok making and selling of his battery 1551 Ib. 155.
M. Walker … grantit that he sawld ane pairt of his battery … in small 1569 Edinb. Test. I. 337.
Sex pund of battre
