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intrenchment

  • a word derived from intrench.
    intrench
    verb (used with or without object)
    entrench.

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The Morgan men explained that Southern's intrenchment policy put dividends out of the question.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taking note of all this, Kmita began to sink holes quietly in the slope of the intrenchment and to climb slowly to the gun.

From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The soft soil had rendered fury impossible, and in fact fastened the heavy cavalry to its place in front of the intrenchment.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Spaniards lost their general, a brave old Walloon officer, who had given them the plan of their intrenchment.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

There they awaited our men, who marched in good order, and attacked the first intrenchment on three sides.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various