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Furnished with or guarded by forts strengthened or defended as by forts...
Peine forte et dure
Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to plead, was pressed by a heavy weight of iron till he died or answered, 2 Reeves, c. ix., 134; 4 Steph. Com.By the Criminal Law Act, 1827, s. 2, if a prisoner refuse to plead, the Court may order a plea of 'not guilty' to be entered....
Fortlett
Fortlett, a place or fort o some strength; a little fort, Old N. B. 45....
black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball shell etc for the purpose of destroying an army or battering a town ship or fort usually an attack of some continuance...
Coquina
A soft whitish coral like stone formed of broken shells and corals found in the southern United States and used for roadbeds and for building material as in the fort at St Augustine Florida...
Eau forte
An etching or a print from an etched plate...
Ensconce
To cover or shelter as with a sconce or fort to place or hide securely to conceal...
Flanker
One who or that which flanks as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body...
Fort
A strong or fortified place usually a small fortified place occupied only by troops surrounded with a ditch rampart and parapet or with palisades stockades or other means of defense a fortification...
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