countermine

countermine englannista suomeksi

1. raivata miinoja

2. sabotoida

3. vastatoimena kaivettu tunneli

0. Substantiivi

0. Verbi

countermine englanniksi

1. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1990|author=Peter Hopkirk|title=The Great Game|page=436|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2010

3. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

4. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.

5. (RQ:Sidney Arcadia)

6. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

7. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) every gamester will agree how necessary it is to know exactly the play of another, in order to countermine him.

8. to sap hostile mining.

9. (quote-book)|title=The Great Events of the Great War|volume=5|chapter=The Man-Made Earthquake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NEkyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA214|passage=(...)so Fritz could sleep easily in his trench, so far as mines were concerned; and Fritz, confident in his Herr Professors, altogether neglected any attempt to counter-mine.