| Pronunciation: | | 'parupet
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| Matching Terms: | | parapectin, parapegm, parapeptone, parapetalous, parapeted
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| | Definition: | | [n] fortification consisting of a low wall |
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| | Synonyms: | | breastwork |
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| | See Also: | | fortification, machicolation, munition |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par"a*pet\, n. [F., fr. It. parapetto, fr. parare to
ward off, guard (L. parare to prepare, provide) + petto the
breast, L. pectus. See {Parry}, and {Pectoral}.]
1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the
edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for
covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See
Illust. of {Casemate}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tackling, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work |
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