单词 | coupure |
释义 | coupuren. a. Military. A ditch or trench; esp. one dug by the besieged for purposes of defence. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > ditch dike847 ditch1045 graff1637 cuvette1678 cunette1688 coupure1710 van-fosse1728 1710 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 639 The besiegers..made too deep coupures to drain the inundations. 1714 London Gaz. No. 5264/12 They carried all the Coupure which was behind the Monastry. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ii. 17 Making coupures (trenches, or sunk barricades) in the streets. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 138/1 Portions of the faces..are isolated by a small ditch and parapet at right angles to the face, called a coupure. Categories » b. Fortification. A passage cut through the glacis in the re-entrant angle of the covered way, to facilitate the sallies of the besieged. (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1710 |
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