Glacis - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: glacisCounterscarp
The exterior slope or wall of the ditch sometimes the whole covered way beyond the ditch with its parapet and glacis as the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp...
Coupure
A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged...
Eacutecoute
One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis They serve to annoy the enemys miners...
Glacis
A gentle slope or a smooth gently sloping bank especially Fort that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country see Illust of Ravelin...
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