| 单词 | line of circumvallation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasline of circumvallation b. line of circumvallation: a line of earth-works consisting of a rampart and trench surrounding a besieged place or the camp of a besieging army. So wall of circumvallation, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > line of rampart and trench line of circumvallationc1660 c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 36 At night we rod about the lines of Circumvallation. 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 12 The Walls of Circumvallation of that Pallace, being four and twenty foote thick. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. vi. xi. 473 The outward moat of circumvallation was above a league in extent. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xxxviii. 605 The line of circumvallation was already closed. line of circumvallation a. A trench or rampart; plural (also collective singular), a connected series of field-works. Also, one of the rows of huts or tents in a camp or cantonment (see quots. 1872-6, 1876). line of circumvallation, line of defence, etc.: see the second nouns. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications counter-line1598 line1665 trocha1896 society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > encamping > row of tents line1665 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 613 The Line that incompassed his Camp was 8 Foot high. 1695 M. Prior Eng. Ballad 5 Regain the Lines the shortest way, Villeroy. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 139. ⁋7 He took the French Lines without Bloodshed. 1793 R. Burns in G. Thomson Sel. Coll. Orig. Sc. Airs I. i. 22 I left the lines, and tented field. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 352 Lines were now run from bastille to bastille, and the town was completely shut in. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. i. 21 To attack the Gorkha positions at the western extremity of their line. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 263 Lines are formed for the entrenchment of armies, and are composed of a succession of redans, &c. (joined by curtains). 1872–6 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. In India..a cantonment contains barracks for European troops, and native huts termed lines for the Sepoys. 1876 Murray's Handbk. Surrey, Hants., Isle of Wight (ed. 3) 173 In the North Camp [Aldershot] the buildings are principally of wood, arranged in ‘lines’..which are lettered from A to Q. Each line is an oblong block of about 40 huts. < as lemmas |
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