Talk:siege

In its entry in the English language, there is an instance of citation (date, author's name, & title of the literary work) that does not have any quote under it and is itself not under a 'quotations list'. It too is immediately beside the 11th sub-definition of the 2nd sense.

The 'References' section does not have any content but the heading itself.

Please substantiate both, and also organise the former. Thank you.

A Mediocre Lifetime Student (talk) 11:18, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July 2022–February 2023
As was mentioned in the Tea Room, there’s no proper citation for this sense of the word siege and the alleged source, the American Mechanical Dictionary, doesn’t seem to list this meaning of the word anywhere. I couldn’t find any evidence of the word being used in this way in GoogleBooks either. Overlordnat1 (talk) 00:36, 17 July 2022 (UTC)


 * FWIW, the American Mechanical Dictionary does mention this meaning. It's in volume III (1876/7), page 2175. 98.170.164.88 00:46, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
 * It's in the OED as well but they only give one example and I can't find any myself. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 19:55, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed, only OED cite in a mention. Ioaxxere (talk) 18:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)