terrassing

Verb

terrasse (third-person singular simple present terrasses, present participle terrassing, simple past and past participle terrassed)

1. 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...1785, Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, The Life of Henry the Fourth of France, page 144

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