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Rampart :: Rampart (n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.

Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

Fausse-braye :: Fausse-braye (n.) A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level..

Bulwark :: Bulwark (n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

Defilade :: Defilade (v. t.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point..

Round :: Round (n.) A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural..

Stational :: Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa..

Vallum :: Vallum (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification..

Circumvallate :: Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

Wall :: Wall (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense..

Trench :: Trench (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench..

Fascine :: Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc..

Boulevard :: Boulevard (n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town..

Rampart :: Rampart (v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts..

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart..

Parapet :: Parapet (n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate..

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..

Moat :: Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch..

Spur :: Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

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