Crossword-Solution: COUNTERSCARP
We have 2 clues for the answer “COUNTERSCARP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DITCH slope | 2 answers |
| CASTLE part | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMAECZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with COUNTERSCARP (5)
And as the berry, pale and sharp, Springs on some ditch’s counterscarp In our ungenial, native north— You put your frosted wildings forth, And on the heath, afar from man, A strong and bitter virgin ran.
There is a double ditch, or moat, the innermost part of which is 180 feet broad; there is a good counterscarp, and a covered way marked out with ravelins and tenailles, but they are not raised a second time after their first settling.
Five hundred grenadiers rushed from the English trenches to the counterscarp, fired their pieces, and threw their grenades.
The Irish, as soon as they had recovered from their surprise, stood resolutely to their arms; and the English grenadiers, overwhelmed by numbers, were, with great loss, driven back to the counterscarp.
Batteries were planted; trenches were opened; mines were sprung; in a few days the besiegers were masters of the counterscarp; and all was ready for storming, when the governor offered to capitulate.