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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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