Crossword-Solution: BATTEMENT 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Ses souliers beuglaient et giclaient si régulièrement dans sa marche, que leur chanson lui semblait naturelle comme le bruit d'une source ou le battement d'un moteur.

Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience; and though there is also a tangible vertigo, as when a blind person turns round, as mentioned above; yet as this circumgyration of objects is an hallucination or deception of the sense of sight, we are to look for the cause of our appearing to move forward, when we stop with our eyes closed after gyration, to some affection of this sense.

But, as the sound of bells is the most familiar of those sounds, which have a considerable battement, the vertiginous patients, who attend to the irritative circles of sounds above described, generally compare it to the noise of bells.

That is, at those intervals they attend to the apparent motions, and to the battement of sounds of the bodies around them, and for a moment mistake them for those real motions of the ship, and noise of wheels, which they had lately been accustomed to: or at these intervals of reverie, or on the approach of sleep, these supposed motions or sounds may be produced entirely by imagination.

The descriptions of the assaults of arms among the celebrated fencers of the capital were of equal interest to him, and although he found fencing expressions--_Engagement de sixte_, _Battement en quarte_, _Contreriposet_, _Feinte_,_ etc._--were somewhat confusing, he translated them in his own way, and pretended to be quite conversant with them.