A strong distilled alcoholic beverage made from various fruits, varieties of which (such as slivovitz) are found across the Balkans and the Mediterranean.
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton
Any juice.
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
To gradually weaken.
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
To exhaust the vitality of.
To pierce with saps.
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).