OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29580

breastwork

Meanings (ES + gloss)
parapeto
A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks.
Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire.
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