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Definition of Entrenchments
1. entrenchment [n] - See also: entrenchment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrenchments
Literary usage of Entrenchments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary (1890)
"his conviction that all the entrenchments were the work of the British inhabitants
of the Wolds. Whatever separate tribes inhabited the Wold district (and ..."
2. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1848)
"A second Detachment sent against the Place,—found abandoned. — entrenchments at
... entrenchments at ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline & Fall of the by William Russell, Charles Coote (1822)
"The king's person was in imminent danger; the Austrian cavalry, sallying out
furiously from their entrenchments on the right and left, when the efforts of ..."
4. The Life of Ulysses S. Grant: General of the Armies of the United States by James Harrison Wilson, Charles Anderson Dana (1868)
"The greater part of July and much of August were spent in strengthening the
entrenchments, extending now from the Appomattox east of Petersburg, ..."
5. A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow: From Its Commencement to Its by L. E. Ruutz Rees (1858)
"Description of our entrenchments. — Captain Anderson's House. ... All outside
our entrenchments was as quiet and still as if it were a city of the dead. ..."
6. The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1837)
"The king's person was in imminent danger ; the Austrian cavalry sallying out
furiously from their entrenchments on the right and the left, when the efforts ..."
7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"... Ag '15 Envelop sealer Envelop sealer of the pension office, il Sci Am il
Craftsman 28:302-10 My '15 entrenchments. See Intrenchments En Vedette, pseud. ..."
8. On the Use of Field Artillery on Service: With Special Reference to that of by A. Taubert (1856)
"Field entrenchments serve either to close a defile— especially to cover bridges,
as bridge-heads, and usually occur in this way separately—or to strengthen ..."
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