2 (U.S. history) the war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the North and the South, sparked off by Lincoln's election as president but with deep-rooted political and economic causes, exacerbated by the slavery issue.
A barrage is a term used to describe extensive artillery fire against enemy positions. Barrages were classified as light, moderate or heavy. A light barrage amounted to six or seven shells every ten minutes. A moderate barrage was thirty shells a minute and a heavy one, fifty to sixty shells a minute.
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. noun. A man faces a barrage of reporters. A man faces a barrage of reporters. The definition of barrage is a large volume of something, or a huge amount of things happening all at once.1  An example of a barrage is when 100 reporters all shoot questions at the president at the same time.arrage. noun. An artificial obstruction, such as a dam or irrigation channel, built in a watercourse to increase its depth or to divert its flow. French, from barrer, to bar, from barre, bar, from Old French; see bar 1.