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

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..

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..

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..

Fraise :: Fraise (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Mound :: Mound (n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll..

Rampire :: Rampire (n.) A rampart.

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

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

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

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