1) Canadian mountain 2) Fastness 3) Fortification 4) French word used in English 5) Hilltop fort 6) Mount of Canada 7) Mountain in Canada 8) Mountain in North America 9) Mountain of Canada 10) Mount of North America 11) Mountain of North America 12) Peak of North America 13) Peak of Canada 14) Prominence of Canada
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1) Stronghold
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A redoubt (historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick. It is meant to protect soldiers outside the main defensive line and can be a permanent structure or a hastily-constructed temporary f...
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a small defensive earthwork fortification, sometimes temporary, and sometimes used to reinforce a permanent rampart.
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rough and temporary fortification
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• (n.) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin. • (v. t.) To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. • (n.) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used es...
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Small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.
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Small self-contained fieldwork, a refuge for soldiers outside the main defenses.
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In trench warfare, small enclosed trench work employed in conjunction with a system of infantry trenches. It can form a strong point of resistance even after the rest of the trenches have been...
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A central tower within a fortification. An example is the visible remains of the 17th century Osbourne's Fort, Lindisfarne, Northumberland. This could be armed with cannons on the upper floors, (so as to fire above the curtain wall), accommodation and a magazine below.
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somewhere for soldiers to hide while they are fighting
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outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop etc. also a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position
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Detached, independent outwork.
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Re·doubt' noun [ French
redoute , fem., Italian
ridotto , Late Latin
reductus , literally, a retreat, from Latin
reductus drawn back, retired, past participle of
reducere to lead or draw back; confer French
réduit , also from Late Latin
reductus . Se...
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Re·doubt' transitive verb [ French
redouter , formerly also spelt
redoubter ; from Latin prefix
re- re- +
dubitare to doubt, in Late Latin , to fear. See
Doubt .] To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [ R.]
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Independent defensive position.
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In military defences a redoubt is a defensive work entirely enclosed by a parapet of earth; they have a greater resisting power against an infantry attack than a group of trenches.
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HMS Redoubt was a British Rotherham Class destroyer of 1705 tons displacement launched in 1942. HMS Redoubt was powered by two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots. She was armed with four 4.7 inch guns; four 2 pdr pom-pom guns; eight 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes.
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n] - a forbidding stronghold
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outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop etc. also a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position
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noun a forbidding stronghold
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