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A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

The act of untwisting, or of disentangling.

The act of covering with gravel.

To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum…

between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.

Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream. [U.S.] T. Flint.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

h church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in communi…

A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest. A capcase for your linen and your plate. Beau. & Fl.

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

elers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa.

ly drawn by a single native pony and used to convey passengers within city limits or for traveling. It is the common public carriage.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

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.

of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. See Illust. of Ravelin.

la. -- Derrick crane. See Derrick. -- Gigantic crane. (Zoöl.) See Adjutant, n., 3. -- Traveling crane, Traveler crane, Traversing crane (Mach.), a crane mounted on wheels; esp., an overhead crane consisting of a crab or other hoisting apparatus traveling on rails or beams fixed overhead, as in a machine shop or foun…

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