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redoubt 音標拼音: [rəd'ɑʊt] n. 多面堡,防守陣地 多面堡,防守陣地 redoubt n 1: ( military) a temporary or supplementary fortification; typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses 2: an entrenched stronghold or refugeRedoubt \ Re* doubt"\ ( r?* dout"), n. [ F. redoute, fem., It. ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. r[' e] duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See { Reduce}, and cf. { Reduct}, { R[' e] duit}, { Ridotto}.] ( Fort.) ( a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. ( b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of { Ravelin}. [ Written also { redout}.] [ 1913 Webster]
Redoubt \ Re* doubt"\, v. t. [ F. redouter, formerly also spelt redoubter; fr. L. pref. re- re- dubitare to doubt, in LL., to fear. See { Doubt}.] To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " redoubt": abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed- wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval- de- frise, circumvallation, citadel, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fastness, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, fortress, glacis, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, stronghold, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work
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