battery n Cp OED ~ 5 'platform or fortified work ... within which artillery is mounted.' A blind or place of concealment constructed of snow from which hunter may shoot deer; cp GAZE.
   [1786] 1792 CARTWRIGHT iii, 129 Three hands were at work in building batteries in Western Tickle, for deer-shooting; the former ones being thawed away: they finished three, and brought home my double gun.

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