sepimentn.
/ˈsɛpɪmənt/ Now rare or Obsolete. † b. transferred and figurative. Something that encloses or guards.
a. A hedge, fence, pale.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence
hayc725
gartha1340
tiningc1440
mound?a1500
frith1511
dike1567
sepiment1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sepiment, an hedge, pale, mound or inclosure.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. xi. §3. 279 Such things as are used for the fencing of Places; Sepiment, Wall, Pale, Fence, Enclosure, Fold, Mound.
1905 Longman's Mag. July 272 That hedge, its [an orchard's] southern sepiment..is a huge mass of bramble.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence
hornc825
shieldc1200
warranta1272
bergha1325
armour1340
hedge1340
defencec1350
bucklerc1380
protectiona1382
safety1399
targea1400
suretyc1405
wall1412
pavise?a1439
fencec1440
safeguard?c1500
pale?a1525
waretack1542
muniment1546
shrouda1561
bulwark1577
countermure1581
ward1582
prevention1584
armourya1586
fortificationa1586
securitya1586
penthouse1589
palladium1600
guard1609
subtectacle1609
tutament1609
umbrella1609
bastion1615
screena1616
amulet1621
alexikakon1635
breastwork1643
security1643
protectionary1653
sepiment1660
back1680
shadower1691
aegis1760
inoculation1761
buoya1770
propugnaculum1773
panoply1789
armament1793
fascine1793
protective1827
beaver1838
face shield1842
vaccine1861
zariba1885
wolf-platform1906
firebreak1959
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > that which encloses
closurec1386
shrinea1400
closerc1440
clausurea1464
sepiment1660
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 16 Making the sepiment of skyn which man is bounded with a symbol of his Mortality.
1678 Lively Oracles ii. §27 A farther testimony and sepiment to which, were the Samaritan, Chaldee, and Greek versions.
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