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n. (barrage balloon English)
Usage examples of "barrage balloons".
It is lying beneath a damaged radio tower, the deflated barrage balloons hanging over the girders nearby like broken wings.
Great Achaea had rockets, upward-firing rifled cannon, barrage balloons.
They looked very much like the hydrogen cylinders used for inflating barrage balloons.
Either free-floating small balloons, such as that one, or from regular barrage balloons of the type used to protect cities.
Sunlight lay, a warm benediction, on pavement and roof-top, reflected from the silvery curves of high-floating barrage balloons.
The map didn't say what kind of balloons it was supposed to serve, whether barrage balloons, designed to interfere with aircraft attacking the island fortress, or observation balloons, from which the tip of the Bataan Peninsula two miles away could be observed.
Perhaps we should put up stacks of paper in place of barrage balloons.
I can hardly imagine the London skies without the barrage balloons, and should be sorry to see them go.
Only the barrage balloons, hawsers taut, tethered as though to some giant hand, broke the skyline.
It had been relayed from Yoshikawa, and it reported that no barrage balloons had yet been emplaced to protect the fleet from air attack.
Though it may seem odd that oceanographers should get involved with such an idea, this is not surprising when one realises that they are about the only people (since the great days of barrage balloons) who concern themselves with very long cables hanging under their own weight.