About The Word Parapet
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Parapet
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What's The Definition Of Parapet?
[n] fortification consisting of a low wall
Synonyms | Synonyms for Parapet: breastwork Related Terms | Find terms related to Parapet: 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 See Also | fortification | machicolation | munition Parapet In Webster's Dictionary \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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