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Provided with an abatis.
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(architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
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(architecture) work including one or more balustrades
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(historical) The political and ideological barrier between the communist and capitalist states of Asia during the Cold War.
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(military) A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers.
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A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
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Alternative form of bartisan [(architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.]
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A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
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(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
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(military) A small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines.
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(historical) A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
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Furnished with a cabinet or cabinets.
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(architecture) The use of cantilevers.
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(of a room in a building) Floored with a carpet.
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(engineering) Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
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An opening in a garden hedge, fence, etc. through which a scenic view can be observed.
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A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
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(architecture) A structural member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
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The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
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Having crenellations or battlements
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Alternative form of crenellation [(countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.]
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Having crenellations or battlements.
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(countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
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Alternative spelling of crenel [The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.]
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(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
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A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.
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An indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification.
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(fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
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Alternative form of demilune [(military, architecture) A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.]
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(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
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Alternative form of embrasure [(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.]
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(specifically, military fortification) A similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts.
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A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
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Part of a parapet lying between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.
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(in combination) Having a specified number or kind of girders.
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(fortifications) The highest line of the parapet.
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(architecture) A projecting parapet with a series of such openings.
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(architecture, military, historical) Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.
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A battlement with interstices for firing through.
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Alternative form of orillon [A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, found in old fortresses.]
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A semicircular projection made at the shoulder of a bastion for the purpose of covering the retired flank, found in old fortresses.
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A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
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In fortifications that were enfiladed by enemy in positions commanding the fort, an internal parados could defilade the enemy, serving as physical protection and blindage. Usages of the term have varied inconsistently according to times and sources. Some sources use parados as a synonym for a traverse; some other sources represent parados as a special class of traverse and not necessarily at the back of any particular position.
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(transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour").
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(military, historical) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to catch any earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.
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A screen or piece of furniture placed in a way that it divides a room into separate areas.
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A crescent-shaped structure of stones built to afford cover in battle.
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(obsolete) A type of stone fortification.
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A "wall" of overlapping shields formed by medieval soldiers standing next to each other
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(military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
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(military, historical) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
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(of carpeting) That covers all of the floor of a room.
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