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Flanker

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

Ensconce

To cover or shelter as with a sconce or fort to place or hide securely to conceal

Coquina

corals found in the southern United States and used for roadbeds and for building material as in the fort at St Augustine Florida

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Cannonade

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

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

Torture

and unusual punishments' which, by the Bill of Rights of 1688, 'ought not to be inflicted.' The peine forte et dure (see that title) is also a kind of torture in the primary sense. All three kinds

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