war cry
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See also: warcry
English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
- An exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle; a battle cry.
- 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:
- Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
Translations[edit]
exclamation intended to rally soldiers in battle
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