| 单词 | empty bastion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasempty bastion empty bastion n. Fortification a bastion, the interior surface of which is lower than the rampart; = hollow-bastion n. at hollow adj. and adv. Compounds 3b; cf. full bastion n. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1711 J. T. Desaguliers tr. J. Ozanam Treat. Fortification i. 51 When the Enemy makes it in an empty Bastion. 1830 United Service Jrnl. July 63 When the mass of rampart and parapet follows the winding of the faces and flanks of a bastion, (leaving the space in the interior of the bastion on the level of the natural ground,) such a construction is called an empty bastion. 1998 J. J. Gomila Minorca ii. 42 Shortly afterwards that point was reinforced by the round tower or empty bastion over which the present-day Teatre Principal..was built in 1829. < as lemmas |
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