What is "dry battery"

Usage examples of "dry battery".

I brought out my torch from under my parka - it was always kept there as even a dry battery could freeze and give no light at all if the temperature fell low enough - and probed around in the darkness.

From it a wire ran under my coat, connecting with a small dry battery in a pocket.

In the Baghdad Museum you can see the parts of a dry battery which worked on the galvanic principle and generated electricity sixteen hundred years ago.

Instead of drinking wine he had one of his robots pour a dollop of electrolytic fluid into a dry battery.

Inside was a dry battery and a most peculiar instrument, something like a little flat telephone transmitter yet attached by wires to earpieces that fitted over the head after the manner of those of a wireless detector.

Inside was a dry battery and a most peculiar instrument, something like a little flat telephone transmitter, yet attached by wires to ear- pieces that fitted over the head after the manner of those of a wireless detector.

From a wire ran under my coat, connecting with a small dry battery in a pocket.

Well, a minute ago, I got to talking to her again, and dang me for a dry battery if she don’.

It needs only a small dry battery and can be carried around easily.