Breastwork
['bres(t)wɜːk] or ['brɛst,wɝk]
Definition
(n.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
(n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
Checked by Brits
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Fort.) Parapet.
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Examples
- Finally the fire communicated with our breastworks, in places. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We fought behind breastworks, which accounts in some degree for the disparity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The gun is mounted on a disappearing carriage, which lowers it out of sight behind the breastworks after firing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They had come to much prefer breastworks in their front to the Army of the Potomac. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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