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Rate | Answer | Clue |
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. ... |