单词 | to sap up, on |
释义 | > as lemmasto sap up, on a. intransitive. To dig a sap or covered trench; to approach a besieged place by means of a sap. Also to sap up, on. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)] > dig approach trench or tunnel sap1598 gallery1807 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Zappare, to digge, or delue, or grubbe the ground, to sap. 1642 H. Hexham Princ. Art Milit. (ed. 2) ii. 38 Then one begins to Sapp from H to I. 1642 H. Hexham Princ. Art Milit. (ed. 2) ii. 45 After you have sapt through the Counterscharfe. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iv. vii. 252 They sapt up towards the castle. 1882 R. Temple Men & Events xx. 483 Where the Muhammadan besiegers erected batteries, sapped, undermined, stormed. < as lemmas |
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