Definitions for battues

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battues bat·tue

Spelling: [ba-too, -tyoo; French ba- Battues is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in battues (abesttu).

Definitions for battues

noun

1. Hunting. the beating or driving of game from cover toward a stationary hunter. a hunt or hunting party using this method of securing game.
2. undiscriminating slaughter of defenseless or unresisting crowds.

Origin of battues

1810-20; French, noun use of feminine of battu, past participle of battre Latin battuere to beat. See battuta, battle¹

Examples for battues

The noise is as if a thousand sportsmen were out for a battue.

His burghers were ready to "go on the battue of Englishmen," when he gave the word.

I went hunting with no company but the two hundred gamekeepers for the battue.

A battue of Communards is obviously superior to a battue of pheasants.

And as he surveyed the battue he would gradually discern its tactics.

The Indian assured him that it was not the first battue of the kind he had made.

The battue in Ettrick Forest, for the destruction of the foxes.

In a battue of this description a whole neighbourhood joins.

From the beginning of the battue it was easy to see that the hunt would be a good one.

I hate a battue, and call it sport I cannot, and never will.