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BESET Besieged
ASSALED Besieged
ASSAILED Besieged
BESIEGER One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
BESIEGEMENT The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
COUPURE A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
FALL The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
BATTERING-RAM An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
OBSESSION The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
QUARTER The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.
CONTRAVALLATION A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.
SORTIE The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.
COFFER A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
SALLY A rushing or bursting forth; a quick issue; a sudden eruption; specifically, an issuing of troops from a place besieged to attack the besiegers; a sortie.
SAP A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
SOW A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
TRENCH An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
CIRCUMVALLATION A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
SUCCOR To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
PARALLEL One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking...
RELIEVE ...port, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town. ...
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