"battering train" meaning in English

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          "text": "When the fire reached this barrier, it was compelled to pause, until a concentration of its heat could overcome the moisture, like an army impatiently waiting the operations of a battering train, to open its way to death and desolation.",
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          "text": "Be that as it might, numberless great guns, whose thunder had long been the voice of battle,—the artillery of the Armada, the battering-trains of Marlborough, and the adverse cannon of Napoleon and Wellington,—were trundled into the midst of the fire.",
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        "(military, historical) A train of heavy artillery, such as battering rams and catapults, for siege operations."
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