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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.
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