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Flanker :: Flanker (v. t.) To defend by lateral fortifications.

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

Gabionage :: Gabionage (n.) The part of a fortification built of gabions.

Ward :: Ward (n.) To defend by walls, fortifications, etc..

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

Barricade :: Barricade (n.) A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access..

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..

Work :: Work (n.) Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works..

Murdress :: Murdress (n.) A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

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..

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..

Breach :: Breach (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture..

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

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..

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..

Loophole :: Loophole (n.) A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump..

Munificence :: Munificence (n.) Means of defense; fortification.

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

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