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Abattis

noun
1.
A line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy.  Synonym: abatis.





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"Abattis" Quotes from Famous Books



... fire. The distance from the edge of the clearing to the abattis was, at the most, a long musket-shot, and for two-thirds of it the crescent-shaped line of British ran as in a paper-chase, John a Cleeve vaulting across tree-trunks, leaping over stumps, and hurrahing ...
— Fort Amity • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Abattis" :   line of defence, line of defense


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