Meanings of war elephant in English

Kalidasa's great war elephant, caparisoned with the royal banners, turned aside to avoid a patch of marshy ground.

Their horses and war elephants were caparisoned as if for a parade.

In the days of war elephants they got the beasts drunk, too.

Juba contributed war elephants to the contest, as well as cavalry and four legions.

Looking at the massive war elephants made his guilt about Brennus surface all over again.

He'd gathered ten thousand elephants, including fourteen war elephants that had endowments of brawn, metabolism, and stamina.

Apparently, the Wolf Lord had tried to bring war elephants over the Hests late in the season-andhe had failed.

And yet the Mahanayake Thero had no armies, no screaming war elephants tossing brazen tusks as they charged into battle.

Thrown in dense volleys, they caused instant panic among the war elephants, which turned and stampeded back through their own lines.

They were each 300 strong, and, besides a sufficient number of repeating-rifles, they took with them several war elephants, some cannons, and some rockets.

" War elephants?" I ask, disarmed by the intent gaze of the great creatures who are to accompany us.

Instead of total Roman victory, however, I read of Rome's failure to make substantial gains against the formidable Kandake of Meroë and her war elephants.