What is "abatises"

Usage examples of "abatises".

As for Maltby's militias—defending abatises or a stockade, they might be nearly as good as armsmen.

Sounded terrible, even from a ways off, and chewed up the forest pretty badly, but didn't really harm the abatises that much.

Algis directed him to the work crews felling abatises, but he insists on Noble Hospitality.

But more convincing, he'd seen abatises being felled around Noka, nearer to Hasty than to Cloud.

After a quarter mile, they saw abatises ahead, one on either side of the trail, presumably extending to the steep slopes that flanked the draw.

The necessity of weaving in and out of the abatises meant any cavalry charge at the breastworks would fail — not that any horseman would take his mount at the earthworks, since they bristled with spears and were filled with men.

Past that, at the top of the hill, more abatises blocked the road, and another line of earthworks crested the hill.

He set it up, then recruited a small army of axmen to fell and help man abatises, and to clear fields of fire for the artillery.

There'd been no abatises before, but by now Ngo had some sense of where to expect them.

Either to turn west to the Sota and help man the abatises, or ride north and block them on the Causeway Road.