countermines

Bragadino gaue to euery souldier one duckat, the which could gaine or recouer any of the former woolpackes, making countermines in all places.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Gabriel Du-chef, steward of the house of the lord great master, which had the charge of the sayd countermines at the same bulwarke.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

But the countermines met not, sauing those of the Commander of S. Nappa, of Andruzzi, and that of Campo Santo, because they were open, and our men sallied out often both by day and night into the ditch to perceiue better the way of the mines, and to fire the fagots and wooll.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

But the most part of the sayd mines came to no proofe though they put fire in them, and many were met with countermines, and broken by our men by the good diligence and sollicitude of sir

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

God countermines them in their actings, and blows them up in their own mine.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

He planned a number of countermines inside the wall, and extending them outside the wall beyond the range of arrows, hung up in all of them brazen vessels.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

And the cratered earth is in travail with mines and with countermines—

Headquarters 1917

For look you, the mines is not according to the disciplines of the war; the concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you, th’ athversary—you may discuss unto the duke, look you—is digt himself four yards under the countermines; by Cheshu, I think, a’ will plow up all if there is not better directions.

Act III. Scene II. The Life of King Henry the Fifth 1914

And the cratered earth is in travail with mines and with countermines --

A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

If we can carry it the city must fall, but they have run countermines all round it, and the walls are so enormously thick that it would be an immense labour to breach it with artillery.

The Adventures of Gerard Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1903