emmantle

Verb

emmantle (third-person singular simple present emmantles, present participle emmantling, simple past and past participle emmantled)

1. Place around as a fortification
   • Whereby he grew to such wealth, that of late he bequeathed by his last will and testament ten millions of Sesterces unto his native city Marsils toward the fortifications therof, besides the walls that he caused to be built and emmanteled about other towns , which cost him little under the foresaid...1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World