Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, a hole or cavity, resembling a well, made near a rampart, from which an underground gallery extends, or which serves to give vent to an enemy's mine and diminish its destructive effect.
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_essentia_, we must add the prefix _cascan_, and thus have
American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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