Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, a bastion that has only one face and one flank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A
half bastion , or that part of a bastion consisting of oneface and oneflank .
Etymologies
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Compare French demi-bastion.
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Examples
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Southwell, were to attack an unfinished demibastion on the extreme western point of the fort and furthermost from the town.
The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain 1867
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