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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle.
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The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.
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The foot were also responsible for entrenchments and for engineering works associated with sieges.
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Thousands of Union men were set to digging entrenchments and preparing emplacements for siege guns.