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

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..

Sally :: Sally (v. i.) To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep :: Keep (n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle..

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..

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