ENTRENCHMENT


Meaning of ENTRENCHMENT in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle.

The dogmatic resistance to entrenchment would raise its arid and pedantic head.

The foot were also responsible for entrenchments and for engineering works associated with sieges.

Thousands of Union men were set to digging entrenchments and preparing emplacements for siege guns.

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