单词 | to plant a siege |
释义 | > as lemmasto plant a siege b. transitive. To put or place (artillery) in position for discharging. †to plant a siege (obsolete): to lay siege. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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