See approacher on Wiktionary
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"text": "1589, Paul Ive (translator), Instructions for the Warres by Raimond Beccarie de Pavie, Seigneur de Fourquevaux, London: Thomas Man and Toby Cooke, Chapter 5, p. 38,\n[…] houses or other thing standing néere vnto a towne, or fort, are meanes to surprise and approach vnto it, and the approacher not be discouered, or impeached by the defenders."
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