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Noun: battue  ba'too
  1. A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
     
  2. Indiscriminate slaughter
    "a huge prison battue was ordered";
    - bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed

Derived forms: battues

Type of: butchery, carnage, hunt, hunting, mass murder, massacre, slaughter

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battleground
battlement
battlemented
battler
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Saratoga
battle-scarred
battleship
battlesight
battlewagon
battue
batty
Batu Khan
batwing
bauble
baud
baud rate
Baudelaire
Bauhaus
Bauhinia
Bauhinia monandra