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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
    "The battue was organized to control the wild boar population"
     
  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