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单词 to plant a siege
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to plant a siege
b. transitive. To put or place (artillery) in position for discharging. †to plant a siege (obsolete): to lay siege. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)]
to lay ensiege?a1500
to plant a siegea1500
to sit down1593
inleaguer1603
to set downa1616
to lie down1693
sit1802
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > mount
planta1500
mount1515
brake1579
countermount1596
remount1627
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 3818 Þe Kynge of Inglande..playntit a [seige] about Berwyk.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccjv Plantyng your ordenaunce here & there on your walles and Bulwarkes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 748 The Capitaines..planted a strong siege, and enuironed it round about.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. True Hist. Siege Ostend 214 The siege being planted before Escluse.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. i. 1 This cavill is not planted particularly against my indevours.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 140/2 Plant a peece, is to order it for it discharging that it may do service or execution.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 382 Four swivel-guns..were planted at the mouth of each funnel.
1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers 151 The general impression prevailed that we were to escort Col. Duncan to plant his artillery.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xiii. iii. 451 Cannon with case-shot planted themselves in all the thoroughfares.
1934 R. Graves I, Claudius xxxii. 464 The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels, and catapults planted on sand-dunes.
1999 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 28 Mar. a1 Williams says he's tried everything to get rid of bears, even automated gas cannons planted in the fields.
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