battery-mate

Updated: May 2, 2025

Then he ordered his young subaltern, his battery-mate, as he called him, to ascend the broad crumbling staircase, and glance into the dismantled chambers, while himself with the third of the party a trusty old gunner should inspect the cellarage.

R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore - Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War