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Abatis

noun
1.
A line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy.  Synonym: abattis.





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"Abatis" Quotes from Famous Books



... orchards and hedges levelled, while the unhappy owners looked on in mute despair, aiding one another to remove their furniture. The object was to leave a broad space to north of the forts, that an attacking force might find no shelter. About an hundred feet from the blockhouses was to be an abatis of sharpened logs, and a mass of brush and trees, through which ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell


Words linked to "Abatis" :   line of defence, line of defense, abattis


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