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fosse

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fosse
A ditch that serves as a barrier against an enemy.
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At length, branching off from Solomon's Great Road, we came to the wide fosse surrounding the kraal, which is at least a mile round, and fenced with a strong palisade of piles formed of the trunks of trees.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
They were encamped in tents, constructed of the old sails and spare spars of the squadron, within the limits of a redoubt mounted with a few nine-pounders, and surrounded with a fosse.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
But, in the vicinity of the gate of Benjamin, the wall arose by no means from the margin of the fosse.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
 
 
 
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