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

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

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.

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

Circumvallation :: Circumvallation (n.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without..

Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To raise, as a siege..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation..

Besiege :: Besiege (v. t.) To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset..

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

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

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