单词 | to make a sortie |
释义 | > as lemmasto make a sortie a. A dash or sally by a besieged garrison upon an investing force. Frequently in to make a sortie. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > discontinuing of siege > sally issuea1450 excourse?1520 sally1560 sallying1560 a sault out1560 out-sally1598 outfall1637 sortie1778 razoo1864 1778 H. Walpole Let. 8 Oct. (1967) XXIV. 413 Before their last sortie, one heard nothing but What news of the fleets? 1795 W. Seward Anecd. II. 217 If the enemy..thought fit to make any sortie from the town. 1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 285 In case your sortie should succeed (which will place the war on its legs again in the best manner). 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. vi. 138 To repel the sorties, made..by the militia of the capital. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §9. 557 A sortie from Dublin had already broken up Ormond's siege of the capital. < as lemmas |
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