sap faggot

English

Noun

sap faggot (plural sap faggots)

  1. Alternative form of sap fagot.
    • 1829, sir Charles William Pasley, Rules ... for conducting the practical operations of a siege, page 15:
      A sap faggot is a short but very strong fascine, about 3 feet long, and 9 inches in diameter, composed also of stout picket stuff; which may be used, instead of sand bags, for filling the interstices between the gabions, at the head of a sap.
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