Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of siege is as below...

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..

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.

Leaguer :: Leaguer (v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer.

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..

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

Muscule :: Muscule (n.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) A siege.

Sow :: Sow (n.) 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..

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..

Sap :: Sap (n.) 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..

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

Sortie :: Sortie (n.) The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally..

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

Besieger :: Besieger (n.) One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) 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..

Siege :: Siege (n.) Hence, place or situation; seat..

Obsess :: Obsess (v. t.) To besiege; to beset.

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

Beleaguer :: Beleaguer (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

Random Fonts

Most Popular