[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who besieges.
1580. Baret, Alv., B 570. A besieger, obsessor.
1594. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., 313. Demetrius, surnamed the Besieger.
1633. H. Cogan, Pinto’s Trav., liii. (1663), 209. Permission for the Besieged to converse with the Besiegers.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 18, ¶ 6. The Besiegers were quiet in their Trenches.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., V. 80. The advanced works of the besiegers were … close to the town.
