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To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts. Those grassy hills, those glittering dells, Proudly ramparted with rocks. Coleridge. Rampart gun (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

r [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

eatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

A lodging for soldiers in garrison towns, usually near the rampart; barracks. Bescherelle.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.

The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

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.

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

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.

made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

sticks of wood, bound 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.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

lace; usually, 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.