ravelin

American  

[rav-lin] / ˈræv lɪn /

noun

Fortification.

1. a V -shaped outwork outside the main ditch and covering the works between two bastions.

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ravelin British  

/ ˈrævlɪn /

noun

1. fortifications an outwork having two embankments at a salient angle

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Etymology

Origin of ravelin

1580–90; < Middle French, earlier revelin < Italian rivellino, diminutive of riva bank, rim

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Example Sentences

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ravelin

He provides a very large re-entering place of arms, also with a keep, the ditches of which are carefully traced so as to be protected from enfilade by the salients of the ravelin and bastion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

You lissen! yere is de covered way ob de ravelin, outside ob a redoubt, whar dey got a big traverse wid a powder-magazine built into it.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

Our lady was the first to make the descent: the height was seventy-two feet; she went on to the ravelin to await the others.

From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

The hour had come for the States of Europe to work out their own salvation, or resign themselves to autocracy, Jesuitism, a gagged Press, the omnipresent spy, the Troubetskoi ravelin, Spandau, and Metternich.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb

In front of the Punta de Tierra was a ravelin.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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