terrasse
To terrace; to supply with a terrace or cut into terraces.
However, to bring the heads of the league the sooner to a capitulation, it was resolved upon in his council, to attack all the suburbs at once, which he executed on the night of the twenty seventh of July , with great success , having carried them in less than an hour , and bloated up all the doors , before which his men erected their lodgings , after terrassing the houses that were next the ditch.
Where it comes from
From French terrasse (“terrace”). Doublet of terrace.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry terrasse (CC BY-SA 4.0).