Word Meanings - APPUI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. Point d'appui. Etym: A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched

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A support or supporter; a stay; a prop. If a be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it. Holland. Point d'appui. Etym: A given point or body, upon which troops are formed, or by which are marched in line or column. An advantageous defensive support, as a castle, morass, wood, declivity, etc.

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