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Intrenchment

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In`trench´ment
n.1.The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.
2.(Mil.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.
On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills.
- Washington.
3.Any defense or protection.
4.An encroachment or infringement.
The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom.
- Southey.
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Noun1.Intrenchmentintrenchment - an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches
entrenchment
fortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
retrenchment - entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
trench - a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth


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At length, obliged to beat a retreat before superior numbers, they formed an intrenchment behind the large table, which they raised by main force; whilst the two others, arming themselves each with a trestle, and using it like a great sledge-hammer, knocked down at a blow eight sailors upon whose heads they had brought their monstrous catapult in play.
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The grenadiers of the two regiments got near enough to the ditches and intrenchments to launch their grenades, which had but small effect.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
If there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant and hopeless expedition, for the purpose of riveting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen, direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a project, to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power, and to make them an example of the just vengeance of an abused and incensed people?
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