battery

Examples

• All

• They reached the battery where O'Donald's twelve-pound brass Napoleons were deployed.

  Fiction book (1990)

• While electricity could conceivably be produced by grinding up a household battery, mixing together its various chemical ingredients, and then harnessing the resulting heat, it is much more efficient to keep the battery intact and produce electricity directly.

  Academic text (1994)

• The miners used a battery of heavy stampers to crush the gold ore in the deep underground tunnels.

• At the quarry, there is a large battery designed specifically for crushing rocks and extracting valuable minerals.

• In the old mining village, a battery was installed to help the workers process the extracted ores more efficiently.

Synonyms

S

stamp

vsbattery

• Archaic

3 8.6

A heavy machine that pounds or crushes rock at a mine

is the collective group of such bars working together in mortar

S

stamp battery

vsbattery

• Archaic

9.9

A machine with heavy metal weights that fall to crush rock to get gold

is the general term for that assembled crushing unit

Q

quartz battery

vsbattery

• Archaic

9.9

A machine with heavy metal hammers that crushes quartz rock to get gold and other minerals

is the general term not limited to quartz ore

S

stamp mill

vsbattery

• Archaic

9.3

A machine that crushes rock to get metal from it

refers to the set of stamps working together in a mortar

S

stamping mill

vsbattery

• Archaic

9.1

A machine that crushes rock that has metal in it to get metals like gold

focuses on the assembled stamps as a unit in a mortar

P

pestle

vsbattery

• Specialized

8.5

A heavy bar in a machine that moves up and down to crush rocks

specifies the enclosed set of stamps in a mortar used for ores

Surface Forms

Etymology