remblai

• Then there is the lynchet or remblai, like a steep cliff, from three to twelve feet high, hardly to be noticed from above until the traveller is upon it. —  The Old Front Line
• A remblai, also topped with hawthorn, lies a little to the north of this road From this lynchet, looking down the valley into the Y Ravine, the enemy position is saddle-shaped, low in the middle, where the Y Ravine narrows, and rising to right and left to a good height. —  The Old Front Line
• A remblai, also topped with hawthorn, lies a little to the north of this road. —  The Old Front Line
• This type of raised road or track can be seen in one or two parts of the battlefield (just above Hamel and near Pozières for instance), but the hollow or sunken road and the steep remblai or lynchet are everywhere. —  The Old Front Line
• The features are a lane, fifty or sixty yards in front of our front trench, and a remblai or lynchet fifty or sixty yards in front of the lane. —  The Old Front Line

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms