Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water.
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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