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  • noun Protection.

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  • tutament
    n. a means of defence; a safeguard

    Strange freaks these round shot play! We saw a man coming up from the rear with his full knapsack on, and some canteens of water held by the straps in his hands. He was walking slowly, and with apparent unconcern, though the iron hailed around him. A shot struck the knapsack, and it and its contents flew thirty yards in every direction; the knapsack disappeared like an egg thrown spitefully against the rock. The soldier stopped, and turned about in puzzled surprise, put up one hand to his back to assure himself that the knapsack was not there, and then walked slowly on again unharmed, with not even his coat torn.

    — Franklin Aretas Haskell, The Battle of Gettysburg, 1908


    (from <a href="http://www.futilitycloset.com/2016/09/27/in-a-word-553/">Futility Closet.com</a>)


    September 28, 2016