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PARAPET |
Rampart |
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RAMPIER |
See Rampart. |
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RAMPIRE |
A rampart. |
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RAMPARTED |
Of Rampart |
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RAMPARTING |
Of Rampart |
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LINE |
A trench or rampart. |
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VALLATION |
A rampart or intrenchment. |
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VALLAR |
Of or pertaining to a rampart. |
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CIRCUMVALLATE |
To surround with a rampart or wall. |
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CAST |
To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. |
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VALLUM |
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification. |
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BULWARK |
A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork. |
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CIRCUMVALLATION |
The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart. |
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BOULEVARD |
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or
fortified town. |
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CASERN |
A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the
rampart; barracks. |
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RAMPART |
To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or
ramparts. |
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BRISURE |
Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the
general direction. |
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SPUR |
A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner
wall. |
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DEFILADE |
To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior
works commanded from some higher point. |
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FAUSSE-BRAYE |
A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the
main rampart, and considerably below its level. |
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WALL |
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural,
fortifications, in general; works for defense. |
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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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TERREPLEIN |
The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart,
on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate. |
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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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TRENCH |
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or
breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. |