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Definition of Countermines
1. countermine [n] - See also: countermine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countermines
Literary usage of Countermines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"Spreading system of countermines. — In anticipation of what the French might ...
that their system of countermines began to assume ' vast' proportions. ..."
2. A Treatise on Gun-powder; a Treatise on Fire-arms; and a Treatise on the by Alessandro Vittorio Papacino d'Antoni (1789)
"OF THE ATTACK or countermines. 71. ... When the level of the countermines is
lower than the ditch, ..."
3. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1881)
"PS "I think it would be necessary for to Receive my countermines April 8th from
you, in case I should send to you in the ..."
4. An Elementary Course of Military Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1865)
"The systems of countermines proposed by most writers on this branch of the defence
are generally of too complicated a character to admit uf being ..."
5. A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow: From Its Commencement to Its by L. E. Ruutz Rees (1858)
"Mines and countermines. — Attack of the 5th September. — Quiet Days. — Sudden Death.
— Death of Captain Fulton His Eulogy. — Fatal Error. ..."
6. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Freeland Fullam, Thomas Charles Hart (1905)
"Running a line of countermines.—All being in readiness, the tow starts at full
... The lines of countermines may be laid with a view to clearing only one ..."
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