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Meanings of fosse in English
Usage of fosse in English
1
The dung and moisture are collected in a fosse in the stable.
2
She had a suspicion that the corpse was in the fosse.
3
The night passed off quietly, the horses and carts remaining beyond the fosse.
4
A little farther and they came to the fosse of the old camp.
5
Belike they are good, peaceful friends at the bottom of the fosse together.
6
Rearward a steep glacis and a deep fosse defended the works.
7
Forts were erected for defence, and the surrounding fosse was filled with water.
8
He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed.
9
Doubtless it was he who slew him, and is himself wounded in the fosse.
10
The three faces of the fort measured 455 yards of fosse and earthen rampart.
11
A deep fosse ran along the foot of the wall.
12
Then she returned, took her banner, and stood on the brink of the fosse.
13
Up he jumped, ran up the rampart, and then down again into the fosse.
14
Like a military camp, the whole place would be surrounded with fosse and vallum.
15
Surrounding it was a broad and deep fosse, into which a stream was turned.
16
So they trooped this morning; and when they reached the fosse, all stopped but one:
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United Kingdom
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