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▪ I. sapping, vbl. n.1 (ˈsæpɪŋ) [f. sap v.1 + -ing1] 1. The action of the verb sap in various senses; an instance of this.1672 J. Lacey tr. Tacquet's Milit. Archit. 51 The sapping of the out-breastwork must be intercepted by a counter and transverse Sappe. 1726 Cavallier Mem. iv. 341 They were oblig...
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Sapping
Sapping is a term used in siege operations to describe the digging of a covered trench (a "sap") to approach a besieged place without danger from the enemy's However, the Siege of Godesberg of 1583 during the Cologne War showed that fortresses could still withstand sapping and explosives to a point.
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Groundwater sapping
understand the process of sapping. Howard, "Introduction: Groundwater Sapping on Mars and Earth" in Sapping Features of the Colorado Plateau, edited by A.D. Howard, R. C.
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EV drivers wrestle with cold weather sapping their battery range - NBC News
Jan 18, 2024Consumer Reports' testing of four popular EV models — the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Volkswagen ID-4, the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the Tesla Model Y — also found significant battery depletion in ...
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sapped, ppl. a. (sæpt) [f. sap v.1 + -ed1.] Undermined. Also, eroded or broken off by glacial sapping.1716 Gay Trivia iii. 389 Her sap'd Foundations. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop liii, Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall. 1972 J. G. McCall in C. Embleton Glaciers ...
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Sap (disambiguation)
Sap may also refer to:
Sap, a trench dug towards an enemy position during sapping
Sap, a baton weapon
Cell sap, the liquid inside the large central vacuole
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Coprates quadrangle
One mechanism that has been advanced is sapping. In sapping, the ground just gives away as water comes out. Sapping is common in some desert areas in America's Southwest. Sapping forms alcoves and stubby tributaries.
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Gemblak
Since heterosexual relations with women were regarded as sapping the strength of the warok (who leads the dance and functions as master of ceremony, as
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John Lucas (VC)
In December 1860 British forces under Major General Thomas Simson Pratt carried out sapping operations against a major Māori defensive line called Te Arei
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Heaven Sent (Scorpion Wind album)
--sapping the life out of a dead man. A reflection on man's mortality and the eternal nature of the forces surrounding us.)
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Hole of Horcum
The Hole was created by a process called spring-sapping, where water welling up from the hillside gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks
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Dao Vallis
The partially circular depressions on the left side of the channel in the image below suggests that groundwater sapping also contributed water more gradually
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Juventae Chasma
Some may have started from melting snow, others from groundwater sapping, and still others from precipitation. Inverted channels are also present.
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Maʼadim Vallis
Some of the short narrow channels along the walls of Maʼadim are probably sapping channels. Sapping occurs when groundwater partially dissolves and undermines the rock, which collapses into debris deposits and is carried away by other erosion
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Siege of Bouchain (1712)
Thanks to the protection provided by sapping, the French troops on the left lost only 12–15 men while making their attack on the covered way. Villars was aware of the heavy casualties caused by assaults only lightly supported by artillery fire and without preparatory sapping, but judged the increased
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