Crossword-Solution: EPAULEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Epaulement | n. | A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy. |
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| a side-work of a battery or earthwork to protect it from flanking fire | 1 answer |
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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.
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Sentences with EPAULEMENT (5)
Epaulements for guns may be constructed at the rate of six men to one epaulement in four moves.* [* Notice to be given to umpire of commencement of any work or the placing of a mine.
Thirteen years after, when General Amherst besieged Louisbourg again, he dragged his cannon to the same hill over the same marsh; but having at his command, instead of four thousand militiamen, eleven thousand British regulars, with all appliances and means to boot, he made a road, with prodigious labor, through the mire, and protected it from the French shot by an epaulement, or lateral earthwork.
The guns had breached a new epaulement on Thornhill's Kop--to the left of Surprise Hill and a few hundred yards nearer--and perhaps knocked over a Boer or two,--perhaps not.
Once the Boers hoisted a large white flag over their epaulement and proceeded to repair some small damage to their gun--they have very weird ideas about the white flag.
THE FIRST EFFECTS OF THE BOMBARDMENT The Belgian Headquarters Staff had probably decided that its front on the Ostend road was too excentric, and that the line of the Yser would form a more solid epaulement.