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Compass :: Compass (v. t.) To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round about..

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

Contravallation :: Contravallation (n.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged..

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

Coupure :: Coupure (n.) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver; as, to relieve a besieged town..

Besiegement :: Besiegement (n.) The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged..

Siegework :: Siegework (n.) A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) A siege.

Besieging :: Besieging (a.) That besieges; laying siege to.

Leaguer :: Leaguer (n.) A siege or beleaguering.

Obsidional :: Obsidional (a.) Of or pertaining to a siege.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To retire; to give up a siege.

Siege :: Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne..

Siege :: Siege (n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.

Leaguerer :: Leaguerer (n.) A besieger.

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) 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..

Ponvolant :: Ponvolant (n.) A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge..

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