terrasse
verbEtymology From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
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To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
- However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144:
- Gottwald lists three elements which may have made it possible for an Israelite tribal society to emerge in the Palestinian mountainous areas around 1200: the introduction of iron tools; the new technique of lining cisterns; and the new method of cultivation, which entailed terrassing the mountain slopes in order to control the use of the available rainfall.1985, Lemche, Early Israel, →ISBN, page 19: