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Definition of Entrenching
1. entrench [v] - See also: entrench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrenching
Literary usage of Entrenching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"They are entrenching themselves at Roxbury, and erecting batteries to play on
the lines.1 THE following ..."
2. OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary by OECD Staff (2005)
"... 0 OECD 2005 Chapter 2 entrenching macroeconomic stability and smoothing entry
to the euro area This Chapter discusses the challenges for monetary and ..."
3. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... Selection of route—Peculiarities of Grant and Lee—Strategy of each — Mode of
entrenching—Numbers, losses, and reinforcements in Wilderness campaign. ..."
4. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... Selection of route—Peculiarities of Grant and Lee—Strategy of each— Mode of
entrenching—Numbers, losses, and reinforcements in Wilderness campaign. ..."
5. The Lives and Services of Major General John Thomas, Colonel Thomas Knowlton by Charles Coffin (1845)
"Putnam to come to his succor; he rode about "Bunker's Hill, while the battle
raged under his eye, with a number of entrenching tools slung across his horse, ..."
6. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"... have the thought of defending his prescience, by entrenching upon his wisdom
and truth, without offering the highest violence both to him and ourselves. ..."