intrench
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Fearful of being attacked before they could intrench, they immediately set to work with their axes to throw together a brushwood fence, while thirty soldiers were stationed in front toward the river, to repel assault.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
On the 1st of July, Burgoyne encamped four miles north of Ticonderoga, and began to intrench and to throw a boom across the lake.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Ah, word of no meaning, behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual!
From The Best Psychic Stories by Various
The information was sent up to general head-quarters, and orders were sent General Ransom to intrench his brigade along the crest of the hill.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Both the division commanders claim that they were to be relieved, and that they were ordered not to intrench or replenish supplies.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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