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n.
A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.
v. t.
To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
n.
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
n.
A trench or rampart.
v. t.
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
n.
A rampart or intrenchment.
n.
See Rampart.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rampart
v. t.
To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
n.
A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
n.
A rampart.
n.
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
n.
The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.
n.
That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
n.
A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
n.
A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.
imp. & p. p.
of Rampart
n.
A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
n.
A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
a.
Of or pertaining to a rampart.
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