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Definition of Sapping
1. sap [v] - See also: sap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapping
Literary usage of Sapping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
"... fields was not worth the trouble, and pain, and torture which was sapping the
life of ... sapping ..."
2. The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur by W. Richmond Smith (1905)
"CHAPTER XVI The difficulties encountered in running sapping trenches up to the
... of surrendered Russians—The last stage of the sapping operations in front ..."
3. Military Preparedness and the Engineer by Ernest Franklin Robinson (1916)
"sapping. A sap is a zig-zag trench approaching the point of attack. ... sapping is
begun from the first parallel, which is a firing trench established as ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... care—the care of the war—had had been been sapping his vital strength. True,
one does not Ws vital at first very easily learn to believe that he who ..."
5. Attack of Fortified Places: Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions by James Mercur (1894)
"To expedite the work in sapping several reliefs should be employed, ... In all
sapping operations the use of the simple trench and flying sap will be ..."
6. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"The Australian gum is preferred for its rapid growth and stately bearing, as well
as its sanitary qualities, though sapping the soil of its strength for ..."
7. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... or make immediately a sapping [in Ali/if. Art] л working under ground to gain the
... sapping ..."
8. Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897)
"... fields was not worth the trouble, and pain, and torture which was sapping the
life of ... sapping ..."
9. The Siege and Fall of Port Arthur by W. Richmond Smith (1905)
"CHAPTER XVI The difficulties encountered in running sapping trenches up to the
... of surrendered Russians—The last stage of the sapping operations in front ..."
10. Military Preparedness and the Engineer by Ernest Franklin Robinson (1916)
"sapping. A sap is a zig-zag trench approaching the point of attack. ... sapping is
begun from the first parallel, which is a firing trench established as ..."
11. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"... care—the care of the war—had had been been sapping his vital strength. True,
one does not Ws vital at first very easily learn to believe that he who ..."
12. Attack of Fortified Places: Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions by James Mercur (1894)
"To expedite the work in sapping several reliefs should be employed, ... In all
sapping operations the use of the simple trench and flying sap will be ..."
13. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"The Australian gum is preferred for its rapid growth and stately bearing, as well
as its sanitary qualities, though sapping the soil of its strength for ..."
14. The universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1731)
"... or make immediately a sapping [in Ali/if. Art] л working under ground to gain the
... sapping ..."
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