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Subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area
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outwork
Word definitions for outwork in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outwork \Out"work`\, n. (Fort.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. --Wilhelm.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At first the boot and shoemaking industry was organized on an outwork basis from the towns.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area; "the outworks of the castle"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification. vb. 1 (context rare English) To work out to a finish; to complete. 2 To work faster or harder than.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An outwork is a minor fortification built or established outside the principal fortification limits, detached or semidetached. Outworks such as ravelins , lunettes (demilunes), flèches and caponiers to shield bastions and fortification curtains from direct ...
Usage examples of outwork.
Even though they can outwork us, outlift us, outjump us and outfly us, we despise more than we respect them.
Spirit and apply our souls to acquiring the perfection we were instructed to attain, we can periodically glimpse the outworking of the Spirit in our daily lives.
Russia is forced on by fatality: She cries her destiny must be outwrought, Meaning at our expense.
II When, grown a Shade, beholding That land in lifetime trode, To learn if its unfolding Fulfilled its clamoured code, I saw, in web unbroken, Its history outwrought Not as the loud had spoken, But as the mute had thought.
The outworks of the great mountain fortress were all taken, and on July 26th the British columns were converging on Fouriesburg, while Naauwpoort on the line of retreat was held by Macdonald.
There was a strong wall with three bastions, the North Bulwark, the East Bulwark or Pekell, and the Spanish Bulwark at the southeast angle, with an outwork called the Spanish Half Moon on the other side of the Geule.
Suddenly an opening appeared ahead, and then the massive walls of a chateau-looking house, with outworks, bastions, blockhouses, and palisadoes, frowned on a headland that bordered the outlet of a broad stream.
The walls were become stronger than ever they had been, and they and the newmade outworks now guarding them were bristling with bombards and swivels, and the powder manufactory had worked ceaselessly to fill each cask and gunbox to overflowing.
Even though they can outwork us, outlift us, outjump us and outfly us, we despise more than we respect them.
For outworks it had nothing more than an earthern dike, surrounded by a ditch that had once been full of sharpened stakes.
And then it was no delicate girl who stood there, but a great veiled Shape, towering to the very height of the outworks and castle, a woman in form, hair of dancing flame, tossing wildly on the wind, wrapped in garments of flame and with upraised arms from which dangled golden chains of fire.
Form of Fire, with a single blow, broke the outworks as if they had been carved in cheese.
Folly, the remnant walls of a fortress and outworks some of the Families had begun in the early days of settlement as a defense post against alien enemies that did not exist on Wunderland.
Then the Captain of Morgoth sent out riders with tokens of parley, and they rode up before the outworks of the Barad Eithel.
The freshly repaired Citadel outworks and curtainwalls could not be scaled.