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To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover. Farrow.

To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.

moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort. (c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power. (d) The landing…

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

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

The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. -- Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. -- Moon face, a round face like a full moon. -- Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a…

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.

ing between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.

A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.

An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reëntrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.

An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.