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Stockade :: Stockade (v. t.) A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification..

Munition :: Munition (n.) Fortification; stronghold.

Sapper :: Sapper (n.) One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed in working at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like..

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

Armament :: Armament (n.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification..

Donjon :: Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle..

Fortalice :: Fortalice (n.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

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

Fortification :: Fortification (n.) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.

Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..

Recipiangle :: Recipiangle (n.) An instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications..

Bridgehead :: Bridgehead (n.) A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont..

Rath :: Rath (n.) A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.

Bulwark :: Bulwark (n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

Refortification :: Refortification (n.) A fortifying anew, or a second time..

Magazine :: Magazine (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

Mine :: Mine (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent..

Garrison :: Garrison (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town..

Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..

Rasante :: Rasante (a.) Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them..

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