Definition of "fascines" [fascines]

• Plural form of fascine. (noun)

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• "Provide for the troops all the materials necessary (such as fascines and short ladders) to enable them to pass the ditch and mount the parapet."
• "[10] i.e., 'battle-array,' Sw., but the word is uncertain; Kr. suggests 'fascines'; Zl. merely gives '_Prunk_.'"
• "The next morning the enemy attacked again, and made fascines to fill up the deep valley which lies on the eastern side; but this device did the enemy no damage."