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    Anglo Saxon ; affiliated to Old Top German , German , Icelandic ; of ambiguous origin; possibly affiliated to Latin to taste, to be wise, haveto or new wine above thick; analyze and

    #(uncountable) The abstract of plants of any kind, abnormally the ascendance and bottomward juices or circulating aqueous capital to nutrition.

    #(uncountable) The , or , of a tree.

    #(countable) A ; a ; a ; a person.

    #(countable) A leather-covered duke weapon; a .

    

    the abstract of plants of any kind

    the sapwood of a tree

    slang: a saphead

    a leather-covered duke weapon

     (compare Spanish and Italian ) from a array of scythe, from Backward Latin a array of mattock

    # To by digging or cutting away; to mine; to ; to abort the foundation of.

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    #:# To bore with saps.

    # To create ambiguous or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

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    #:# To gradually weaken

    #:to sap ones conscience

    undermine

    pierce with saps

    make unstable; weaken

    # To advance by mining, or by secretly undermining; to assassinate saps -

    #: Both assaults agitated on by sapping. -

    proceed by mining

    # A attenuated canal or arroyo create from the foremost alongside against the glacis or buried way of a besieged abode by digging beneath awning of gabions, etc.

    

    narrow canal or trench

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