1) Acropolis 2) Citadel 3) Fortress 4) Foundation 5) Kremlin 6) Stronghold
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1) Bulwark 2) Castle architecture 3) Defence 4) Defence force 5) Defense 6) Defense force 7) Electronic music group 8) Fictional mass murderer 9) Fictional technopath 10) Fortification 11) Fortified place 12) Fortified position 13) Fortress 14) French word used in English 15) Linux game 16) Part of a fortification
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- a group that defends a principle
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha.
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A gun platform projecting from an angle of the walls of a castle to expose attackers on either side to fire.
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tower at the corner of a fortification
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• (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the a...
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(from the article `Nanaimo`) ...tourism. The federal government maintains a fisheries and oceanographic research station at the north edge of the city. Historic features are ...
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an open projecting work, at the corner of a fortification
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A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable.
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A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable.
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Self-contained unit(s) of fortification projecting beyond the main curtain wall of a fortified place. Artillery, such as cannons, would be contained and infantrymen who could fire along the line of the curtain wall, so as to prevent the advance and scaling of the walls by an enemy. Bastions would cover each other to prevent their direct attack by a...
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Defensive work with two front faces forming a salient from the curtain wall, to allow flanking fire along the wall.
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tower, turret or other construction that projects out from a wall length or commonly found projecting from the corner junction of two walls, that allows defenders to both see and fire upon the ground in front of the walls
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Fortification work, usually four-sided (tetrahedral) and situated in the corners of a wall, with a sharp point, making possible active defence and flanking fire.
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Bas'tion (băs'chŭn; 106)
noun [ French
bastion (cf. Italian
bastione ), from Late Latin
bastire to build (cf. French
bâtir , Italian
bastire ), perhaps from the idea of support for a weight, and akin to Greek
basta`zein to lift, carry, and to ...
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A bastion is a work projecting outward from the main enclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another, with a flanking fire. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with t...
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A defense work projecting from the line of a curtain wall in a fortification, particularly one designed for mounting artillery. It provides enfilading cover and is designed for its faces to be themselves enfiladed.
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The general term for a defensive structure that projects from the main line of defense.
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tower, turret or other construction that projects out from a wall length or commonly found projecting from the corner junction of two walls, that allows defenders to both see and fire upon the ground in front of the walls
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Anti-Tank Missile SystemBat
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noun a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
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noun a group that defends a principle; `a bastion against corruption`; `the last bastion of communism`
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[SAT terms] projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
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