sapping
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Sapping fuel demand further, public transport, including ride-hailing services, will also be suspended during the lockdown.
From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2022
Sapping and mining, the only way by which Bhurtpore could have fallen, was, at the period of the first siege of that place, scarcely known in India; and shelling was then only in its infancy.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
Sapping, sap′ing, n. the act of excavating trenches.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
