Usually means: Enclosed defensive structure projecting outward.
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  1. caponier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. caponier: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caponier: Wiktionary
  4. Caponier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. caponier: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. Caponier: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (caponier)

noun:  (military, historical) A work made across or in a ditch, to protect it from the enemy (as fire from it could cover the ditch), or to serve as a covered passageway (e.g. to outworks).

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