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

Beleaguer :: Beleaguer (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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