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Lunette :: Lunette (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion..

Lunet :: Lunet (n.) A little moon or satellite.

Outwork :: Outwork (n.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc..

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..

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