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

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..

Siege :: Siege (n.) A workman's bench.

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

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

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..

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

Siege :: Siege (n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession..

Boyau :: Boyau (n.) A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc..

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

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..

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

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

Assiege :: Assiege (n.) A siege.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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