Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
out-flank .
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Examples
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This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.
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This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.
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This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.
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This might mean a trench around the Romans camp, but more likely it is a reference to a ditch or ditches dug to keep Spartacuss cavalry from out-flanking the legions, constructed just as Sulla had done at the Battle of Orchomenus in Greece in 85 B.C. As the Roman general Corbulo would later say, you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe.
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But no doubt the arrangement would give the enemy pause, and waste his time in out-flanking movements: violà tout, hgd.
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Six-year-old online auction firm Dena flirted with bankruptcy after the bust, but now founder Tomoko Namba is effectively out-flanking auction leader Yahoo Japan with a service that works exclusively over mobile phones.
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To ensure the success of this ruse, the services of a section of the Town Guard were requisitioned for out-flanking purposes on the one side; while the geographical position of the railway line permitted the utilisation of the armoured train for similar service on the other.
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The Confederates, far out-flanking, swung around him, but as they reached the top of the hill they met a brigade which Warren had sent just in time to defeat this attempt.
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His weakness, in numbers, for only fifty men and a few Indians had come up, was, however, soon apparent, and the enemy came to a halt, and another section of the foe made a movement with the view of out-flanking the assailants.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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Indeed they are an out-flanking movement in the big counter-attack against the Left which Lord Elton.
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