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单词 to trench at
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to trench at
c. intransitive. To cast trenches, in siege works; in quot. 1623, to make one's way by trenching (figurative). to trench at: to lay siege to by means of trenches.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > besiege or blockade [verb (transitive)] > approach by trenches
approach1598
zappec1600
to trench at1744
c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 142 The pioners had trenchit [ed. 1804 trinchett] on the castell hill, and had erectit a braid sconce to hyde thame.
1623 B. Jonson Time Vindicated 125 The Boy with buttons, and the Basket-wench To vent their wares, into my workes do trench!
1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 2 Like powerful Armies trenching at a Town, By slow, and silent, but resistless Sap.
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