Crossword-Solution: PARADOS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parados | n. | An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PARADOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Defense against attack from the rear. | 1 answer |
| Embankment at back edge of a trench. | 1 answer |
| Rear rampart. | 1 answer |
| Earthwork | 18 answers |
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Sentences with PARADOS (5)
They swarmed down into the first long ditch, trampling over dead bodies, falling over them, clawing the earth and scrambling up the parados, all broken and crumbled, then on again to another ditch.
Other young Scottish officers came up and shook hands, and said: “Jolly weather, isn't it? What do you think of our little show?” Not one of them gave a glance at the line of dead men over there, behind their parados.
Sometimes in the flare of a shell-burst a man's body would be silhouetted against the parados of the trench and it appeared like a huge monster.
You do not throw a bomb the way a baseball is thrown, because, when in a narrow trench, your hand is liable to strike against the parados, traverse, or parapet, and then down goes the bomb, and, in a couple of seconds or so, up goes Tommy.
Crossing No Man's Land without clicking any casualties, we came to the German trench and mounted our guns on the parados of same.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1942–1960).