dry battery

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   a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells

   Broadervoltaic battery

   Narrowerflashlight battery

   Partsdry cell

Questions about dry battery

What does dry battery mean?

dry battery means "a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells".

Is dry battery a common word?

dry battery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.