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Abatis
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What's The Definition Of Abatis?
[n] line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Abatis: abattis Related Terms | Find terms related to Abatis: advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battlement | breastwork | bulwark | casemate | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | contravallation | counterscarp | curtain | demibastion | dike | drawbridge | earthwork | enclosure | entanglement | escarp | escarpment | fence | fieldwork | fortalice | fortification | glacis | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | merlon | mound | outwork | palisade | parados | parapet | portcullis | postern gate | rampart | ravelin | redan | redoubt | sally port | scarp | sconce | stockade | tenaille | vallation | vallum | work See Also | line of defence | line of defense Abatis In Webster's Dictionary \Ab"a*tis\, Abattis \Aba"t*tis\, ([a^]b"[.a]*t[i^]s;
French [.a]`b[.a]`t[=e]") n. [F. abatis, abattis, mass of
things beaten or cut down, fr. abattre. See {Abate}.] (Fort.)
A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose
branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the
enemy.
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