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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..

Rampier :: Rampier (n.) See Rampart.

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..

Circumvallate :: Circumvallate (v. t.) To surround with a rampart or wall.

Line :: Line (n.) A trench or rampart.

Terreplein :: Terreplein (n.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate..

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..

Brisure :: Brisure (n.) Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

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

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

Relais :: Relais (n.) A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch..

Casern :: Casern (n.) A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks..

Bulwark :: Bulwark (v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect..

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

Defilading :: Defilading (n.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected..

Circumvallation :: Circumvallation (n.) The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

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..

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

Rampire :: Rampire (n.) A rampart.

Batter :: Batter (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart..

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