Battlepiece
noun
a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
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- Battlesome
argumentative; quarrelsome.
- Battlewagon
battlewagon noun a battleship (1920s+ navy) a police patrol wagon (1920s+ underworld) historical examples he was decorated again and given the battlewagon of an ailing four-striper. the adventurer cyril m. kornbluth
- Battling
a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of waterloo. partic-p-tion in such hostile encounters or engagements: wounds received in battle. a fight between two persons or animals: ordering a trial by battle to settle the dispute. any conflict or struggle: a battle for control of the senate. archaic. a battalion. to […]
- Battologize
to repeat (a word, phrase, mannerism, etc.) excessively. (of writing or speaking) to repeat words, phrases, etc., to an excessive and tiresome degree.
- Battologist
wearisome repet-tion of words in speaking or writing. n. “needless repet-tion in speaking or writing,” c.1600, from greek battologia “a speaking stammeringly,” from battos “stammerer,” of imitative origin, + -logia (see -logy).