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a ditch fifty feet wide, with a covert-way, place of arms, and a glacis: the entrance of the gate is de - fended by a raveline; it is cafe-mated all round, and bomb-proof: the works are entirely of hewn ftone, and being finifhed according to the modern tafte of military architecture, it makes a very handfome appearance, and may be juftly deemed as pretty a fort as any in the king's dominions.
chained_bear commented on the word raveline
A term used in castramentation.
"'A square with a moderate breastwork and a stockade would leave a fine open space between itself and the forest on three sides, and command the landing-place on the fourth. With a carronade at each corner it would make a very neat little post, even without re-entering angles or ravelines or anything ambitious like that.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 308
March 5, 2008