1) Fort embankment 2) French word used in English 3) Gentle slope 4) Vehicle armour
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More generally, the term glacis can denote any slope, natural or artificial, which fulfils the above requirements. The etymology of this French word suggests a slope made dangerous with ice, hence the relationship with glacier. ==Ancient fortifications== A glacis could also appear in ancient fortresses, such as the one built at Semna, by the ancie...
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a gentle slope in fortification
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• (n.) 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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(from the article `military technology`) ...for protection against escalade, were dropped into the ground behind a ditch and protected from battery by gradually sloping earthen ramparts ...
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A bank sloping down from a castle which acts as a defence against invaders; broad, sloping naked rock or earth on which the attackers are completely exposed
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A bank sloping down from a castle which acts as a defence against invaders; broad, sloping naked rock or earth on which the attackers are completely exposed
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An artificial slope of earth in the front of works, so constructed as to keep an assailant under the fire of the defenders to the last possible moment. On the natural groundlevel, troops attacking any high work would be sheltered from its fire when close up to it; the ground therefore is raised to form a glacis, which is swept by the fire of the pa...
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Open space or slope surrounding a fort.
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sloping ground on the attackers side of the covered way, cleared of all obstacles and therefore exposed to defensive fire. See fortification.
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Rampart of the Covered Way, sloping away towards the enemy. Featured in the song 'The British Grenadiers'
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Gla'cis noun [ French
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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Slope up to a fortification.
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In fortifications, a glacis is a smooth piece of ground, sloping upwards and clear of all obstacles, which must be crossed in order to enter a fort.
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glacis 1. Through French: a gradual slope; an embankment sloping gradually up to a fortification, so as to expose attackers to defending gunfire. 2. Etymology: French, from Old French glacier, 'to slip'; from Latin glaciare, 'to make' or 'to turn into ice'.
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a gentle slope. · a bank of earth in front of the counterscarp or covered way of a fort, having an easy slope toward the field or open country.
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