to furnish with a parapet

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• rampart — /ram pahrt, peuhrt/, n. 1. Fort. a. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. See diag. under bastion. b. such an elevation together with the parapet. 2.… …   Universalium

• rampart — /ˈræmpat / (say rampaht) noun 1. Fortifications a. a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification about a place, and usually having a stone or earth parapet built upon it. b. such an elevation together with the parapet. 2. anything …  

• machicolation — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin machicolare to furnish with machicolations, from Middle French machicoller, from machicoleis machicolation, from macher to crush + col neck, from Latin collum more at collar Date: 1787 1. a. an opening between the… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• top — top1 /top/, n., adj., v., topped, topping. n. 1. the highest or loftiest point or part of anything; apex; summit. 2. the uppermost or upper part, surface, etc., of anything. 3. the higher end of anything on a slope. 4. Brit. a. a part considered… …   Universalium

• top — I. /tɒp / (say top) noun 1. the highest point or part of anything; the apex; the summit. 2. the uppermost or upper part, surface, etc., of anything. 3. the higher end of anything on a slope. 4. a part considered as higher: the top of a street. 5 …  

• rampart — ram•part [[t]ˈræm pɑrt, pərt[/t]] n. 1) for a) a mound of earth, rubble, or similar material raised around a place as a fortification b) such a fortification together with a stone or earth parapet capping it 2) anything serving as a bulwark or… …   From formal English to slang

• battlement — n. (usu. in pl.) 1 a parapet with recesses along the top of a wall, as part of a fortification. 2 a section of roof enclosed by this (walking on the battlements). Derivatives: battlemented adj. Etymology: OF bataillier furnish with ramparts +… …   Useful english dictionary

• machicolation —   n. apertures in parapet or floor of gallery for firing upon persons below.    ♦ machicolate, v.t. furnish with these …   Dictionary of difficult words