Defn: An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
At last, the monotonous movement ended, Mr. Laudersdale stood at the window, intercepting the sunshine, and examined some memoranda.
They detached a squadron of twelve triremes to the coast of Italy, for the purpose of intercepting some merchant vessels coming with a supply of money to the Athenians.
The impediment thus finally and irreparably intercepting the Athenian departure, was the direct, though unintended, consequence of the delay previously caused by Nikias.
Norton merely shrugged; there had been a chance of taking Vidal alone, intercepting him.
Sheriff Roberts's deputies with a posse in automobiles had raced southward, intercepting those other cars despatched toward the border by the Kid and del Rio.
The latter, by running backward several paces, succeeds in intercepting the ball at a distance of say five feet beyond its first line-up.
On the 11th the enemy was moving through Swaziland by Mahamba, and this news caused Colonel Colville adroitly to arrange a plan which resulted in the intercepting of a convoy belonging to the Ermelo and Amsterdam commandos.
A night swoop on Graspan had been planned for the purpose of intercepting a Boer convoy (said to be De Wet's), which had been located in the neighbourhood.
The aggressive acts of the latter against the Providence Island Company and the intercepting of English ships, gave a ready excuse for reprisals.
A young nobleman, popularly known as Dollard, conceived the quixotic scheme of intercepting a large force of Iroquois who had wintered on the Ottawa.
The fleet, which formed a screen for land operations on the southern shore, had gradually succeeded in getting several vessels above the city, intercepting supplies and reinforcements.
Franklin was summoned before the committee, was charged with intercepting letters, and was dismissed from the deputy postmaster-generalship.
On the general's arrival at the falls, he learned that the enemy was in force directly in his front, a narrow piece of woods alone intercepting his view of them.
I am happy that my conduct in intercepting Lord Drummond's letter is approved of by Congress.
The 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron, also at sea, was some 85 miles to the southward and eastward of the convoy when attacked, but neither this force nor the Shannon's force succeeded in intercepting the enemy before he reached port.
A ship or two of the line, with a fifty gun ship or two and five or six frigates, would have a great probability of intercepting this fleet.
Admiral Graves, after a bootless cruise to the eastward for the purpose of intercepting some French storeships, had returned to New York on August 16th or 17th, and since that time had been employed in refitting, taking in stores, etc.
Jones had been cruising off the mouth of the Humber and along the Yorkshire coast, intercepting the colliers bound to London, many of which he destroyed (1779).
For this purpose the combined fleets of Spain and France which lay in the harbor of Algeciras were reenforced, and dispositions were made for intercepting the British ships on their passage through the Straits.
But, doubtless, young Landgrave, you have heard of such a thing as the intercepting of a fugitive prisoner; in such a case, you know the punishment which martial law awards.
In hopes of intercepting her, he set sail from Canton, and steered his course back to the straits of Manilla, where she actually fell into his hands, after a short but vigorous engagement.
The Duke instructed to propose the concert of the Dutch naval forces with the French, in intercepting the English West India fleet.
Perhaps they may attempt Rhode Island once more in exchange for Charleston, and try their skill in intercepting our trade.
For a week they were posted within a league of the village, whilst detached portions were employed driving off cattle and horses, destroying the crops, and intercepting all communication with the interior.
We were obliged to break cover, and run smartly to a hedge that fringed the road, in hopes of intercepting their retreat, and were of necessity soon exposed to view.
He might have kept quiet just to get money from Lefty for doing the work on intercepting the data.
Then Lefty Camillion and his friends have been intercepting data from our rocket launchings at Wallops," Scotty said unbelievingly.
He was standing in the attitude of one who is intercepting a blow, and his right hand was stained with blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intercepting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
