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Assiege :: Assiege (v. t.) To besiege.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leaguerer :: Leaguerer (n.) A besieger.

Obsession :: Obsession (n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.

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..

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..

Besieged :: Besieged (imp. & p. p.) of Besieg.

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

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..

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