entrenchern.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 713 The entrencher and maker vp of all these things.

1637 C. Dow Innovations viii. 62 The blame must light upon those entrenchers, not upon those..the over-enlargers of the Royall prerogative.

1692 J. Shirley True Impartial Hist. Ireland 87 The Army was no sooner Encamped, and Entrenchers made some Advance; but the King sent to Summon the Governour to Surrender.

1708 J. Gay Old England's New Triumph 1/2 Does th' Entrencher conclude He his Fate shall elude?

1728 T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Wks. I. 60 The Barbarians strove violently to break our station, and to fall upon the entrenchers.

1866 Intellect. Observer June 393 Romans were the great entrenchers of antiquity, and a body of Roman troops rarely passed a night on a spot without making themselves an entrenched camp.

1884 Cent. Mag. Nov. 102/1 Their fighting redeemed well their shortcomings as intrenchers.

1899 County Gentleman 25 Nov. 1487/1 Two colossal steam entrenchers, capable of throwing up a four feet entrenchment at the rate of three miles an hour.

1987 Dividend Fall 30/3 I want to ask Bruce to stop referring to me as an entrencher of corporate management.

2015 P. Gulasekaram & S. K. Ramakrishnan New Immigration Federalism vii. 204 States and localities appear poised to act as both entrenchers of executive policy visions and as potential checks on the exercise of executive power.