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sieging, vbl. n.|ˈsiːdʒɪŋ|
[f. siege v.]
The action of besieging; a siege.
13..Cursor M. 7070 (Gött.), Here-of thar na man be in were, For qui þe seging lastid ten ȝere. 1382Wyclif Isaiah xxix. 3, I shal kaste aȝen thee an hep, and the strengthis I shal sette in to thi seging. c1440Gesta Rom. lxi. 255 Thenne the duke besegid long this castelle. And as thei wer thus in segeing [etc.]. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 855 Wallace..At Sanct Jhonstoun was at the segeyng still. 1504Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 431 To Hannis, gunnar,..for to pas in the Ilis to the segeing of Carneburgh. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. II. 18 S. Jhones toun, efter lang seigeng, is tane. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iv. v. (1872) I. 435 Stralsund has been taken, since that, by Prussian sieging.
attrib.1809Campbell Gert. Wyom. i. iv, On plains [which] no sieging mine's volcano shook. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vii. x, Well for them, that Insurrection has only pikes and axes; no right sieging-tools! 1858― Fredk. Gt. xviii. xii. (1872) VIII. 21 Friedrich is not thought to shine in the sieging line as he does in the fighting. |