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CITADEL |
Bastion |
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ROUNDEL |
A bastion of a circular form. |
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BASTIONED |
Furnished with a bastion; having bastions. |
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ABERRATIONS |
Make mistake, entering a bastion repaired with anomalies |
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BULWARK |
A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork. |
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RONDEL |
A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. |
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MOINEAU |
A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong
curtain. |
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CAPITAL |
An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other
work, into two equal parts. |
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SALIENT |
Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed
to reentering. See Illust. of Bastion. |
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SHOULDER |
The angle of a bastion included between the face and
flank. See Illust. of Bastion. |
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LUNETTE |
A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient
angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion. |
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DEMIBASTION |
A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting
of one face and one flank. |
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SURFACE |
That part of the side which is terminated by the flank
prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. |
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GORGE |
The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; --
usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion. |
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CAVALIER |
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the
level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. |
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CURTAIN |
That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two
bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. |
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DEMIGORGE |
Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from
the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion. |
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EPAULE |
The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and
flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder. |
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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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COUNTERGUARD |
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting
of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and
protecting them from a breaching fire. |
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RETIRADE |
A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion,
which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled.
It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle. |
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FLANK |
That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the
face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite
bastion; any par... |
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BASTION |
...jacent
curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two
adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank
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