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SIDES |
Flanks |
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SKIRTS |
Flanks |
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SUBSIDES |
Bus reverses into flanks and caves in |
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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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GABIONADE |
A traverse made with gabions between guns or on their
flanks, protecting them from enfilading fire. |
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SKIRMISHER |
Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or
flanks of an advancing army or a marching column. |
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OUTFLANK |
To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass
around or turn the flank or flanks of. |
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BARDE |
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a
horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.] |
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RUBICAN |
Colored a prevailing red, bay, or black, with flecks of
white or gray especially on the flanks; -- said of horses. |
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DIPTERAL |
Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as
well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple. |
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FLANKER |
One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body
of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march,
or a fort proj... |
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SCISSORSTAIL |
... Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It
is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red
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KNOT |
...usky. The lower parts
are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat
it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne. ... |
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YAK |
...e high plains
of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks,
are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long... |
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BASTION |
... of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent
cur... |