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n.
A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.
a.
Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
n.
Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles.
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A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
n.
In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
n.
To defend by walls, fortifications, etc.
n.
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
n.
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
n.
Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works.
n.
A person sent secretly into an enemy's camp, territory, or fortifications, to inspect his works, ascertain his strength, movements, or designs, and to communicate such intelligence to the proper officer.
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A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
n.
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
n.
The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
v. t.
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
n.
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
p. p.
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
n.
One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.
n.
A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
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A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.
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A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediaeval fortifications.
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