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Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..

Gazon :: Gazon (n.) One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

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..

Deblai :: Deblai (n.) The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken..

Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..

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..

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

Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..

Earthbag :: Earthbag (n.) A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet..

Parapeted :: Parapeted (a.) Having a parapet.

Embattlement :: Embattlement (n.) An intended parapet; a battlement.

Genouillere :: Genouillere (n.) That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

Plongee :: Plongee (n.) A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course..

Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.

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

Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..

Balustrade :: Balustrade (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building..

Enfilade :: Enfilade (n.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire..

Intrench :: Intrench (v. t.) To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself..

Pate :: Pate (n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place..

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