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Definition of parapet
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Parapet
(n.) A low wall,
especially
one
serving
to
protect
the edge of a
platform,
roof,
bridge,
or the
like..
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Merlon
::
Merlon
(n.) One of the solid parts of a
battlemented
parapet;
a
battlement.
See
Illust.
of
Battlement.
Earthbag
::
Earthbag
(n.) A bag
filled
with
earth,
used
commonly
to raise or
repair
a
parapet..
Rampart
::
Rampart
(n.) A broad
embankment
of earth round a
place,
upon which the
parapet
is
raised.
It forms the
substratum
of every
permanent
fortification..
Enfilade
::
Enfilade
(n.) A
firing
in the
direction
of the
length
of a
trench,
or a line of
parapet
or
troops,
etc.; a
raking
fire..
Baluster
::
Baluster
(n.) A small
column
or
pilaster,
used as a
support
to the rail of an open
parapet,
to guard the side of a
staircase,
or the front of a
gallery.
See
Balustrade..
Plongee
::
Plongee
(n.) A slope or
sloping
toward
the
front;
as, the
plongee
of a
parapet;
the
plongee
of a shell in its
course..
Gazon
::
Gazon (n.) One of the
pieces
of sod used to line or cover
parapets
and the faces of
earthworks.
Intrench
::
Intrench
(v. t.) To
surround
with a
trench
or with
intrenchments,
as in
fortification;
to
fortify
with a ditch and
parapet;
as, the army
intrenched
their camp, or
intrenched
itself..
Embattlement
::
Embattlement
(n.) An
intended
parapet;
a
battlement.
Stoop
::
Stoop (n.)
Originally,
a
covered
porch with
seats,
at a house door; the Dutch stoep as
introduced
by the Dutch into New York.
Afterward,
an
out-of-door
flight
of
stairs
of from seven to
fourteen
steps,
with
platform
and
parapets,
leading
to an
entrance
door some
distance
above the
street;
the
French
perron.
Hence,
any
porch,
platform,
entrance
stairway,
or small
veranda,
at a house
door..
Genouillere
::
Genouillere
(n.) That part of a
parapet
which lies
between
the gun
platform
and the
bottom
of an
embrasure.
Profiling
::
Profiling
(n.) In the
construction
of
fieldworks,
the
erection
at
proper
intervals
of
wooden
profiles,
to show to the
workmen
the
sectional
form of the
parapets
at those
points..
Parapet
::
Parapet
(n.) A low wall,
especially
one
serving
to
protect
the edge of a
platform,
roof,
bridge,
or the
like..
Redan
::
Redan (n.) A work
having
two
parapets
whose faces unite so as to form a
salient
angle
toward
the
enemy.
Defilement
::
Defilement
(n.) The
protection
of the
interior
walls of a
fortification
from an
enfilading
fire, as by
covering
them, or by a high
parapet
on the
exposed
side..
Esplanade
::
Esplanade
(n.) The
glacis
of the
counterscarp,
or the slope of the
parapet
of the
covered
way
toward
the
country..
Parapet
::
Parapet
(n.) A wall,
rampart,
or
elevation
of
earth,
for
covering
soldiers
from an
enemy's
fire; a
breastwork.
See
Illust.
of
Casemate..
Envelop
::
Envelop
(n.) A work of
earth,
in the form of a
single
parapet
or of a small
rampart.
It is
sometimes
raised
in the ditch and
sometimes
beyond
it..
Pate
::
Pate (n.) 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..
Scarp
::
Scarp (n.) The slope of the ditch
nearest
the
parapet;
the
escarp.
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