Noun: battue ba'too
- 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"
- Indiscriminate slaughter
"a huge prison battue was ordered";
- bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed
Derived forms: battues
Type of: butchery, carnage, hunt, hunting, mass murder, massacre, slaughter