siegeworks

noun명사

1. 1

   공성 시설, 포위 토루 — 포위 공격 때 성벽에 접근하거나 압박하기 위해 쌓은 토루·공성 시설을 가리킨다. 전쟁 중 성을 함락할 때 사용되었다.

   structures or earthworks built to besiege a city

   • Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

   • And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.