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besieger

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Etymology

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From besiege +‎ -er.

Noun

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besieger (plural besiegers)

  1. A person who besieges.
    • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
      For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.

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