¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entanglements
1. entanglement [n] - See also: entanglement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entanglements
Literary usage of Entanglements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men by Joseph Shuter Smith (1917)
"HIGH WIEE Entanglements. To be effective, high wire entanglements should prevent
... This obviously is utterly impossible as far as wire entanglements in ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Abatis and entanglements could readily be extemporized, trunks of trees made
strong breastworks, and the wood »barfs. concealed the numbers of the defenders ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"CHAPTER XXXV Entanglements OUR good Colonel had, no doubt, taken counsel with
his good wife, and they had determined to remove their little Hetty as ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... to keep clear of danger by shunning the entanglements of a foreign alliance,
we now find by the event to have been both impolitic and weak. ..."
5. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"High wire entanglements involving the use of posts extending 3'6" or 4' ...
Any light, strong, portable support for barbed wire entanglements is acceptable. ..."
Other Resources:
