Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small defensive structure or position; a small fort.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small fort, or a small outwork of a fortification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also
fortelace .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A small
fortress .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Matters had been fitly arranged by John Trumble and young Gledstanes in the quaint old fortalice of Hundelshope — now long passed away.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Matters had been fitly arranged by John Trumble and young Gledstanes in the quaint old fortalice of Hundelshope — now long passed away.
Mr. Gladstone 2009
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Part of this venerable building dates back to the time of the first crusade, when Hugo de Capus built a fortalice in the centre of the estate, which had been granted to him by the Red King.
Chennai 2010
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It was at the sight of this little fortalice that the misery of her lot pressed hard on the poor Lady of Avenel.
The Monastery 2008
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The monks repaired their ravaged shrines — the feuar again roofed his small fortalice which the enemy had ruined — the poor labourer rebuilt his cottage — an easy task, where a few sods, stones, and some pieces of wood from the next copse, furnished all the materials necessary.
The Monastery 2008
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Two or three miserable huts, at the foot of the fortalice, held the bondsmen and tenants of the feuar.
The Monastery 2008
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A mysterious terror was thus attached to the dale, which afforded access from the broad valley of the Tweed, up the little glen we have described, to the fortalice called the Tower of Glendearg.
The Monastery 2008
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The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyrie.
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The bridge-keeper, who was the dependant of a neighbouring baron, resided with his family in the second and third stories of the tower, which, when both drawbridges were raised, formed an insulated fortalice in the midst of the river.
The Monastery 2008
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The monk accordingly began with devotion to tell his beads, in pursuance of the prescribed rule of his order, and was not again disturbed by any wanderings of the imagination, until he found himself beneath the little fortalice of Glendearg.
The Monastery 2008
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