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

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

Rampire :: Rampire (n.) A rampart.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Rampier :: Rampier (n.) See Rampart.

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

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..

Ramparting :: Ramparting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rampar.

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

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

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

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..

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