Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification: A wall raised behind another to supply its place when a breach is made.
- noun A wall raised in front of another partition wall to strengthen it; a contramure.
- To fortify (a wall) with another wall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf.
contramure . - transitive verb rare To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
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- verb To
fortify with awall behind another wall.
Etymologies
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Compare French contremurer.
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Examples
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The city hath a threefolde wall about it; the innermost very high, the next lower then that, and the third a countermure and is in circuit about ten English miles: it hath foure and twentie gates: and when the empire was remooued out of the West into the East, it was inriched with many spoiles of olde
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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