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- Breastwork (fortification) - Wikipedia
A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it from a standing position [1][2] A more permanent structure, normally in stone, would be described as a parapet or the battlement of a castle wall
- BREASTWORK Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of BREASTWORK is a temporary fortification
- A Glossary of Fortification Terms - American Battlefield Trust
Breastworks: Fortifications made of piled material (logs, fence rails, stones) usually built up to breast height Typically converted to a rampart if used long-term Casemate: A sturdily-built, arched masonry chamber enclosed by a fortification’s ramparts or walls
- BREASTWORK definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
The superstructure and conning tower was fully armoured, the reason it was called a breastwork, with 8-9in mm of wrought iron
- BREASTWORK Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com
Breastwork definition: a defensive work, usually breast high See examples of BREASTWORK used in a sentence
- Breastwork Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
Breastwork definition: A temporary, quickly constructed fortification, usually breast-high
- breastwork - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From breast + work A fortification consisting of a breast - high bulwark; a parapet Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire
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