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Home Dictionary Name: loophole

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense having its sides loopholed for musketry and often an upper story projecting over the lower or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story thus enabling the defenders to fire downward and in all directions formerly much used in America and Germany...

Close fights

Barriers with loopholes formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemys boarders called also close quarters...

Crenelle

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement a loophole in a fortress an indentation a notch See Merlon and Illust of Battlement...

Loophole

A small opening as in the walls of fortification or in the bulkhead of a ship through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy...