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A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.

d glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.

bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also fire grenade. Rampart grenades, grenades of various sizes, which, when used, are rolled over the pararapet in a trough.

A trench or rampart. (b) pl.

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

l or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound maker (below). -- M…

A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.

See Rampart. [Obs.]

A rampart. [Archaic] The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden.

A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch. Wilhelm.

A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe; also, the guard or officer, with his attendants, who performs this duty; -- usually in the plural.

rins and sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

erve the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.

A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

ace, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa. He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed. Lyttelton.

The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a rampart. Vallar crown (Rom. Antiq.), a circular gold crown with palisades, bestowed upon the soldier who first surmounted the rampart and broke into the enemy's camp.

A rampart or intrenchment.

A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.