Look up: Vallum

1. vallum
   Latin, meaning: palisade, earthen wall, entrenchment, rampart.
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2. Vallum
   A bank. Used to describe the enclosure bank of an early Christian church or monastery.
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3. vallum
   A wall or rampart. A Roman encampment was always enclosed by a defensive system comprising at least 3 components; a ditch or fosse, an inner bank or agger containing the ditch outcast, and a palisade or vallum surmounting the bank; the rampart then, contained both the agger and vallum elements. In the Polybian camp, the vallum was described as a li…
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4. Vallum
   Wall.
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5. Vallum
   This term strictly refers to the whole of Roman frontier works, such as Hadrian's Wall. However, it is usually used to describe a wide, steep-sided and flat-bottomed ditch, flanked by two regularly shaped mounds of the material excavated. The ditch was about eight metres wide at its top and 2.5m at ...
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6. vallum
   ¹ rampart A Roman encampment was always enclosed by a defensive system comprising at least three components; a ditch or fosse, an inner bank or agger containing the ditch outcast, and a palisade or vallum surmounting the bank; the rampart then, contained both the agger and vallum elements. In the...
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7. Vallum
   Val'lum noun ; plural Latin Valla , English Vallums . [ Latin See Wall .] (Rom. Antiq.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
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8. vallum
   1. Any raised, more or less circular ridge. ... 2. The slightly raised outer wall of the circular depression, or fossa, surrounding a vallate papilla of the tongue. ... Origin: L. A rampart, fr. Vallus, a stake ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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9. Vallum
   • (n.) A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
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10. vallum
    Type: Term Pronunciation: val′ŭm, -ă Definitions: 1. Any raised, more or less circular ridge. 2. The slightly raised outer wall of the circular depression, or fossa, surrounding a vallate papilla of the tongue.
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11. Vallum
    `Vallum`: a term applied either to the whole or a portion of the fortifications of a Roman camp. The vallum usually comprised an earthen or turf rampart (agger) with a wooden palisade on top, with a deep outer ditch (fossa). The name is derived from vallus (a stake), and properly means the palisade ...
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12. Vallum
    (Hadrian`s Wall) The `Vallum` is a huge earthwork associated with Hadrian`s Wall in England. Unique on any Roman frontier, it runs from coast to coast to the south of the wall. The earliest surviving mention of the earthwork is by Bede (Historia, I.12), who refers to a vallum, or earth...
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