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Rate | Answer | Clue |
PARAPETED | Having a parapet. | |
EMBATTLEMENT | An intended parapet; a battlement. | |
PETAL | Part of parapet allowed for part of corolla | |
SCARP | The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp. | |
BRATTISHING | Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. | |
CHANDELIER | A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. | |
BATTLEMENT | One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. | |
BRISURE | Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction. | |
EARTHBAG | A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet. | |
BERME | A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch. | |
TREAD | The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet. | |
MERLON | One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement. | |
ESCARP | The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp. | |
RAMP | Any sloping member, other than a purely constructional one, such as a continuous parapet to a staircase. | |
GENOUILLERE | That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure. | |
ESPLANADE | The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country. | |
CONTRAVALLATION | A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged. | |
BREASTRAIL | The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. | |
BARBETTE | A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. | |
CURTAIN | That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion. | |
PLONGEE | A slope or sloping toward the front; as, the plongee of a parapet; the plongee of a shell in its course. | |
ENFILADE | A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. | |
BANQUETTE | A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy. | |
BONNET | A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire. | |
RAMPART | A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. |