rampart

• Again, when a rampart was being prepared against the wall in front of them, and the place was heaped up with felled trees and works placed there, by shooting at it with the ballistae red-hot iron bolts they set the whole work on fire. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• Some of the best shots in the corps took their places on the rampart, and were directed to maintain a steady fire on the French working parties The roar of cannon, when the French batteries opened fire on the town, was prodigious; and it was not long before it was evident that there was no present design, on the part of the French, to effect a breach I expect they have lots of friends in the town," Terence said to Dick Ryan, as they watched the result of the fire; "and they make sure that the garrison will very soon lose heart. —  Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
• He surrounds the city with a rampart, a moat, and a wall: thus he enlarges the pomœrium. —  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
• There when they saw the soldiers on the rampart, and persons sent out to reconnoitre in every direction, brought back word into how narrow a compass the camp had been contracted, inferring thence the scanty number of the enemy. —  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
• An ancient writer states that the rampart was built of regularly laid sods (the same method which had probably been employed by Hadrian), and excavations in 1891-1893 have verified the statement. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Wordniks Suggest

Used in the Same Context

Word Family