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

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..

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

Siege :: Siege (n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.

Siege :: Siege (n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne..

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

Battering Train :: Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations.

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Leaguerer :: Leaguerer (n.) A besieger.

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

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

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

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..

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