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(historical) A door with a baize surface attached to deaden noise, traditionally separating the servants' quarters from the main part of a house.
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Synonym of bailey (“fortification”)
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(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
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(transitive) To furnish with a bastion.
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Protective infrastructure erected to protect weapons and soldiers during battle.
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(military) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
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Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
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(transitive) To fortify something with a wall or rampart.
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An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
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(architecture) The outer slope of a defensive or fortified ditch
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(transitive, military) To fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire.
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(military) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
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Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
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Alternative spelling of doormat [A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.]
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(military) Square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry.
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(transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
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Place around as a fortification
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(military) An obstruction placed in front or on the flank of a fortification, to impede an enemy's approach.
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A fortification constructed of trenches
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An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
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The side of the ditch next to the parapet in a fortification; the scarp.
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(often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.
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(transitive, originally military, chiefly New Zealand) To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.).
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(military) The sides of a bastion perpendicular to the wall from which the bastion projects.
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(military) A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
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The foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark.
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Abbreviation of fort. [A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.]
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To convert into a military fort.
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(architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
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A fortification of stone and timber built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England.
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(idiomatic) Any impenetrable barrier.
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(transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
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(business, figuratively) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason.
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(military) A fortified position for a weapon.
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(military, historical) A permanently entrenched camp attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
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(military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
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(obsolete) A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
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A commonly shared wall dividing two properties within a row house (or terrace)
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A fortified strip or boundary usually protecting a military position.
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To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.
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Alternative form of redoubt (“military fortification”) [A small, temporary, military fortification.]
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(fortification) One of a bundle of fascines to cover besiegers.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
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(archaic) The space between the bed and the wall.
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(military, historical, fortifications) A central or retired work within any other work.
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(military) An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
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To furnish with shelves.
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A legal barrier to technology transfer and sale of advanced computer equipment between China and the West.
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(military) an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts
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(military) A fortified position; a stronghold.
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(military) Any level base used by artillery in the field.
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(intransitive) To be very tall.
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A test used in neuropsychology to assess executive function, specifically to detect deficits in planning. It is related to the Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
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(UK, plural only) A large historic line of walls encircling a town that normally dates back at least to the Middle Ages.
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(military, Latin America) A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region.
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Obsolete form of vauntmure. [A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.]
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A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
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A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
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(rare) Memphis, Egypt or its central fortress
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