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- noun Plural form of
abattis .
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Or there had interposed in his trail abattises of down timber a quarter of a mile wide over which it had been necessary to pick a precarious way eight or ten feet from the ground.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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Or there had interposed in his trail abattises of down timber a quarter of a mile wide over which it had been necessary to pick a precarious way eight or ten feet from the ground.
The Blazed Trail 1902
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