Rating | Solver | Clue |
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SNIPE | Fire (at) from cover | |
DEHORS | All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. | |
BONNET | A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. | |
EPAULEMENT | A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy. | |
SIEGE | ...ks, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade. ... | |
PROMETHEUS | ...e, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen ... | |
GRASS TREE | ...from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. ... | |
DIE | ... as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. ... |