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Definition of Battue
1. Noun. A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
2. Noun. Indiscriminate slaughter. "A huge prison battue was ordered"
Generic synonyms: Butchery, Carnage, Mass Murder, Massacre, Slaughter
Definition of Battue
1. n. The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Definition of Battue
1. Noun. A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes etc. ¹
2. Noun. The game thus forced into the open. ¹
3. Noun. A hunt performed in this manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Battue
1. a type of hunt [n -S]
Medical Definition of Battue
1. Origin: F. Battue, fr. Battre to beat. See Batter, and cf. Battuta] The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc, for game. The game itself. The wanton slaughter of game. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battue
Literary usage of Battue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Out of Doors in Tsarland: A Record of the Seeings and Doings of a Wanderer by Frederick Whishaw (1893)
"We had been awaiting a telegram for many days, for I had been promised a wolf
battue, and longed to add this experience to the now considerable list of ..."
2. Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV. and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1876)
"Mere shooting on the wing the King had long since quitted, and he had ceased to
mount his horse ; thus the chase simply resolved itself into a battue. ..."
3. The Dead Shot: Or, Sportman's Complete Guide : Being a Treatise on the Use by Marksman (1863)
"battue is a word derived from the French: literally, it is "bush-beating. ...
In preserves which are swarming with game, a battue certainly bears the aspect ..."
4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1906)
"Without exception these writers, condemned by internal evidence, know nothing
about either the battue or the game-bird which is usually associated therewith ..."
5. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"... took her out again, and carried her to Thera. ly, battue should be their prince
and leader: to f'la tea, they sent accordingly two ships of fifty oars. ..."
6. Hunting Songs by Rowland Eyles Warburton (1877)
"The hero of heroes my Lord ! The Ball and the battue. i. YE who care to encourage
the long-feather'd breed, To the Ball overnight let the battue ..."
7. Ten Years of My Life by Agnes zu Salm-Salm (1877)
"... Anholt—A battue—Bitter reflections. HAD I the talent of writing novels, I
should find many interesting types of character within the circle of our ..."
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