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A bench built into a wall, especially (military) one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers.
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(architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
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In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
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A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
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(military, historical) A type of fortification structure which allows firing along the bottom of a dry moat that surrounds the main fortress.
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(fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
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In a fortification, a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch.
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(military) A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
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(military, historical) The outer wall of a castle or defensive wall between two bastions.
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(military) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
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(fortifications, historical) The distance between the outward polygons and the flank.
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(military) Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the centre of the bastion.
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(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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The cavity from which the earth for a fortification's parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
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The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress.
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A display of goods for sale situated at an end of an aisle in a shop, perpendicular to the goods in the aisle.
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Alternative form of faussebraye [(military) A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.]
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(military) A second rampart, exterior and parallel to the main rampart, and considerably below its level.
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(military, fortification) An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
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(architecture) The section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like.
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A type of palisade placed for defence around a berm; a defence consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
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(fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
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(obsolete) Protected by turrets.
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A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
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(fortification) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable.
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A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
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(in South Africa) An encircling or overhanging wall of rock.
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(historical) In medieval Britain, a licence, granted by the king, giving permission to fortify a manor house (with crenellations and other fortifying features).
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(fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
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The guiding line, or outline, by which the form of a fortified work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent fortifications.
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(fortifications) A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
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(fortifications) that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered.
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(fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
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Provided with a rampart.
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(fortifications) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch.
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An outwork. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon
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An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.
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A fortification or barrier such as a small earthen mound or ridge, a file of troops, etc.
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(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
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(historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
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(idiomatic) Somewhere to live; shelter.
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(historical) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
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A bastion of a circular form.
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A type of small fort or other fortification, especially as built to defend a pass or ford.
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(fortifications) A raised portion of the parapet of a work at the angles, to protect from enfilade fire.
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Alternative form of tenaille [(military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.]
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(military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.
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(military, historical) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
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(obsolete military) The sloping earthen embankment behind a defensive wall.
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(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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(obsolete) An exterior wall.
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Of or relating to a rampart.
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A rampart or entrenchment.
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(historical, Roman antiquity) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
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