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ANTESTATURE

Volume 1 · 44 words · 1771 Edition

in fortification, a small retrenchment made of palisadoes, or sacks of earth, with a view to dispute with an enemy the remainder of a piece of ground.

ANTEVIRGILIAN husbandry, an appellation given to Mr Tull's new method of horse-hoeing husbandry. See Agriculture, Part II.