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Tenaille :: Tenaille (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin..

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth..

Vanfess :: Vanfess (n.) A ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water..

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..

Landmark :: Landmark (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved..

Dich :: Dich (v. i.) To ditch.

Counterscarf :: Counterscarf (n.) The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp..

Rhine :: Rhine (n.) A water course; a ditch.

Leap :: Leap (v. t.) To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch..

Grip :: Grip (n.) A small ditch or furrow.

Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..

Cunette :: Cunette (n.) A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette..

Fort :: Fort (n.) A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification..

Inditch :: Inditch (v. t.) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch..

Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.

Catchdrain :: Catchdrain (n.) A ditch or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water..

Berme :: Berme (n.) A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.

Delve :: Delve (v. t.) A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave.

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..

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