cavinn.
/ˈkavɪn/ Military.
A hollow way or natural hollow, sufficiently capacious to hold a body of troops, and facilitate their approach to a fortress.In Bailey, Johnson, and modern dictionaries.
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1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cavin, a hollow Way: In the Art of War, a hollow Place, proper to cover Troops, and favour their Approaches to a Fortress.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1708- to set the hare's head against the goosegiblet
- to set the hare's head foot against the goose-giblet
- to set the hare's head foot against the goosegiblet
- to set the hare's head hare-pie against the goose-giblet
- to set the hare's head harepie against the goosegiblet
- to set the heather on fire
- to set the kiln on fire
- to set the kiln on fire sc a-low
- to set the kiln on fire sc alow
- to set the land
- to set the mouth a watering
- to set the pace
- to set the record straight
- to set the scene
- to set the sponge
- to set the spurs to
- to set the stage
- to set the stroke
- to set the thames on fire
- to set the the teeth a watering
- to set the tortoise to catch the hare
- to set the world on aflame
- to set the world on alight
- to set the world on etc
- to set the world on fire