The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Merriam-Webster
— the act of beating someone or something with successive blows : the act of battering
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Macmillan
— an object that fits into something such as a radio, clock, or car and supplies it with electricity
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Other Word Forms
batteries
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1 use of ‘battery’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway