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ravelin
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n. An outwork#Noun. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Half-moon \Half"-moon`\ (-m[=oo]n`), n. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. (Fort.) An ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A ravelin is a triangular fortification or detached outwork , located in front of the innerworks of a fortress (the curtain walls and bastions ). Originally called a demi-lune, after the lunette , the ravelin is placed outside a castle and opposite a fortification ...
Usage examples of ravelin.
The time was now at hand when the besieged foresaw that the ravelin of the Cross gate could not much longer be defended.
A tremendous attack was made upon the ravelin in front of the gate of the Cross.
Any man who climbed a ravelin would be swept off by carefully aimed cannon.
It was the first of a storm, the tight packed balls flaming and falling as the carcasses were rolled on to the breach, and suddenly the breaches, the ditch, the ravelin, the obstacles, and the tiny figures of the Forlorn Hope were swamped in light, light poured from above, by flames that caught on the obstacles in the ditch, and the Hope began to climb as the fire was bright on their bayonets.
The ravelin was twenty feet high, shaped like a diamond, and the only way to the new breach was to go round it.
The ditch between the glacis and the ravelin was black with men, disorganized men, the mingling of the Fourth and Light Divisions.
Some cowered there for safety, thinking the shadow of the ravelin would give them protection from the guns that scorched down at them.
Fourth Division and the South Essex, but the ditch was a massive sink of death, of weird shadows cast by the fires, and he could make out no faces in the packed crowd that was filling the space between the ravelin and glacis.
The foot of the breach was smeared with bodies, its approaches bare of the living, though small groups of men dashed from the shadows of the ravelin and screamed defiance as they clawed at the stones and were blasted away.
Sharpe looked over the ditch, over the scoured ravelin and there, untouched by blood, was the third breach, the new breach, the unattacked breach.
It was not much of an idea, hopeless even, deserving the name Forlorn, but it was all Sharpe had, and so he stared at the ravelin that stretched so invitingly towards the third, unsullied breach.
As long as the British stayed quiet, harmless behind the ravelin, the gunners let them be.
Another attack was coming, the last reserves of the Division being fed into the ditch, and that was the moment, the hopeless moment, when the feeble idea, based only on the narrowing width of the ravelin, must be tried.
He had crossed the ravelin, running, the heat of the fire close on his right side, and the drop was huge.
A prodigious quantity of bombs being thrown into the ravelin, his troops threw themselves into the fosse, mounted the breaches, forced open a sally-port, and entered the place almost without resistance.