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The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

r slope of the roof. -- Deck roof (Arch.), a nearly flat roof which is not surmounted by parapet walls. -- Deck transom (Shipbuilding), the transom into which the deck is framed. -- To clear the decks (Naut.), to remove every unnecessary incumbrance in preparation for battle; to prepare for action. -- To sweep the…

erior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

ire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet aimed at. -- Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on me…

A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.

together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet. See Illust. of Bastion.

, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.

An outwork. [Obs.] Palisadoes, frontiers, parapets. Shak.

One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

ower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.

und with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself. "In the suburbs close intrenched." Shak.