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- n. a stone bulwark, forming a haven or harbour; a breakwater
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“On the molehead the effect of the British fire was terrible; the people with whom it was crowded were swept away by the fire of the _Queen”
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
“Now and then he climbed up on the molehead, put the megaphone to his mouth, and roared out over the water:”
“On the molehead the effect of the British fire was terrible; the people with whom it was crowded were swept away by the fire of the”
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
“On the sea wall of the town were nine batteries; two at the southern extremity; then the Fish-market battery in three tiers, bearing three hundred yards west of the molehead; three between the Fish-market and the gate leading to the mole; one over this gate; and two on the wall beyond it.”
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