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Bastion Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Bastion?
[n] projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
[n] a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle [n] a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism" Synonyms | Synonyms for Bastion: citadel Related Terms | Find terms related to Bastion: abatis | acropolis | advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | battlement | beachhead | blockhouse | breastwork | bridgehead | bulwark | bunker | casemate | castle | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | citadel | contravallation | counterscarp | curtain | demibastion | dike | donjon | drawbridge | earthwork | enclosure | entanglement | escarp | escarpment | fasthold | fastness | fence | fieldwork | fort | fortalice | fortification | fortress | garrison | garrison house | glacis | hold | keep | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | martello | martello tower | merlon | mote | motte | mound | outwork | palisade | parados | parapet | peel | peel tower | pillbox | portcullis | post | postern gate | rampart | rath | ravelin | redan | redoubt | safehold | sally port | scarp | sconce | stockade | strong point | stronghold | tenaille | tower | tower of strength | vallation | vallum | ward | work See Also | acropolis | defence | defence force | defense | defense force | fastness | fortification | kremlin | munition | stronghold Bastion In Webster's Dictionary \Bas"tion\, n. [F. bastion (cf. It. bastione), fr. LL.
bastire to build (cf. F. b?tir, It. bastire), perh. from the
idea of support for a weight, and akin to Gr. ? to lift,
carry, and to E. baston, baton.] (Fort.)
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the
adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to
another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain,
which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the
other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called
the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See {Ravelin}.
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