parados

A parapet on the rear side (parados), to shield the defenders from the back-blast of shell which burst beyond the trench.

One party worked along Jones Street towards the right, some moving in the trench, some along the parados.

Miraculously untouched, he slid over the parados and lay, sweating with fright, in the watery furrow of a turnip field.

Later in the day this gallant soldier was killed whilst bombing a counter-attack from the parados of our trench.