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Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

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..

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

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise, as a siege..

Parallel :: Parallel (n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress..

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

Succor :: Succor (v. t.) 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..

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

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

Siege :: Siege (n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) 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..

Approach :: Approach (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post..

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

Fall :: Fall (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol..

Resiege :: Resiege (v. t.) To seat again; to reinstate.

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

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

Sally :: Sally (v.) 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..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

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