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BASTION |
Fortified place |
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CITADEL |
Strongly fortified place |
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GARRISON |
A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its
security. |
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HOLD |
A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; --
often called a stronghold. |
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SCALING |
Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder,
used in assaulting a fortified place. |
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BASTILE BASTILLE |
A tower or an elevated work, used for the
defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. |
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MOAT |
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other
fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch. |
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ESCALADE |
A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place,
in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. |
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FORTRESS |
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification,
sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of
defense or security. |
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FORTIFICATION |
That which fortifies; especially, a work or works
erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a
fortress; a fort; a castle. |
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PATE |
A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form,
and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified
place. |
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SALLY |
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly;
as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make
a sally. |
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ESCARPMENT |
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a
ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to
prevent hostile approach. See Scarp. |
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BOMBARDMENT |
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with
shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot
into a town or fortified place. |
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STORM |
A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of
troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls,
forcing the gates, or the like. |
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FORT |
A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified
place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and
parapet, or with ... |
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TURRET |
...of ten or
even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high,
usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified... |
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SIEGE |
The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place
for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the
surrounding or investing... |