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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification, a small mound of earth thrown up about a rampart. See false bray, under false.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) A second rampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

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