breastwork
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How to use breastwork in a sentence
My station was on the right of the line, where the breastwork, ending in a redoubt, was steep and high.
Our camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead—a bulwark, a breastwork, of corpses, you may say.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)I found the reserves had thrown up a breastwork from the Ohio 348 to the Kanawha, thus inclosing the camp on the Point.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterHe was on the crest of the hill, and at every lull in the strife his men piled the loose stones into a rude breastwork.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.They move upon the run,—up to the breastwork of rails,—bearing Hancock's line to the top of the ridge,—so powerful their momentum.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.
British Dictionary definitions for breastwork
/ (ˈbrɛstˌwɜːk) /
fortifications a temporary defensive work, usually breast-high: Also called: parapet
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