About The Word Contravallation
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Contravallation
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What's The Definition Of Contravallation?Synonyms | Synonyms for Contravallation: Related Terms | Find terms related to Contravallation: abatis | advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battlement | breastwork | bulwark | casemate | cheval-de-frise | circumvallation | 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 | Contravallation In Webster's Dictionary \Con`tra*val*la"tion\, n. [Pref. contra- +
vallation: cf. F. contrevallation. Cf. {Countervallation}.]
(Fort.)
A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to
secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.
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