| 单词 | rampart-wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrampart-wall General attributive, as rampart-base, rampart communication, rampart gun, rampart-height, rampart-line, rampart-walk, rampart-wall, etc. ΚΠ 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova Scarp, the Foot of the Rampart Wall. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems 29 On the rampart-heights, array'd His trusty warriors, few, but undismay'd. 1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 11 To fill up the rampart in the bastions, and to make a good rampart communication from both. 1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 105 The vast designs Of his labour'd rampart-lines. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vi. 199 The rampart walk, unbroken except by descents and ascents at the gates. 1915 G. Frankau Tid'apa v. 25 Green-dark to the rampart-bases, save where, like a wild beast's eye One red light glowered and glimmered in the shadow-tracery, stretched jungle. 1923 R. G. Collingwood Roman Brit. ii. 30 Along the top [of Hadrian's wall] was a rampart-walk, patrolled by the sentries, and reached by stairs either at a fort, a milecastle, or a turret. 1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 263/2 An Indian rampart gun, with two-stage 44in..iron barrel. 2006 Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 14 The Custodian's House..is within the rampart walls of the castle. < as lemmas |
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