About The Word Glacis

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Glacis

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What's The Definition Of Glacis?Synonyms | Synonyms for Glacis: Related Terms | Find terms related to Glacis: abatis | advanced work | balistraria | bank | banquette | barbed-wire entanglement | barbican | barricade | barrier | bartizan | bastion | battlement | bevel | bezel | breastwork | bulwark | casemate | cheval-de-frise | chute | circumvallation | contravallation | counterscarp | curtain | demibastion | dike | drawbridge | earthwork | easy slope | enclosure | entanglement | escarp | escarpment | fence | fieldwork | fleam | fortalice | fortification | gentle slope | grade | gradient | hanging gardens | helicline | hillside | inclination | incline | inclined plane | launching ramp | loophole | lunette | machicolation | mantelet | merlon | mound | outwork | palisade | parados | parapet | pitch | portcullis | postern gate | ramp | rampart | ravelin | redan | redoubt | sally port | scarp | sconce | shelving beach | side | slope | steep slope | stiff climb | stockade | talus | tenaille | vallation | vallum | work See Also | Glacis In Webster's Dictionary \Gla"cis\, n. [F. glacis; -- so named from its
smoothness. See {Glacier}.]
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially
(Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered
way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of
{Ravelin}).
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