Crossword clues for bridgehead
bridgehead
- A defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
- An area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held for further troops and supplies
- Violin piece by leader in strong position
- Game had to involve one of its players in an advanced position
- Son leaves Waugh’s house, skirting key part of fortification
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bridgehead \Bridge"head`\, n. A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a t[^e]te-de-pont.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An area around the end of a bridge. 2 (context military English) A fortification around the end of a bridge. 3 (context military English) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance. 4 (context chemistry English) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge.
WordNet
n. an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies; "an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines"; "the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar" [syn: foothold]
a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
Wikipedia
A bridgehead (or bridge-head) is the strategically important area of ground around the end of a bridge or other place of possible crossing over a body of water which at time of conflict is sought to be defended/taken over by the belligerent forces.
Bridgeheads typically exist for only a few days, the invading forces either being thrown back or expanding the bridgehead to create a secure defensive lodgement area, before breaking out into enemy territory, such as when the U.S. 9th Armored Division seized the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen in 1945 during World War II. In some cases a bridgehead may exist for months.
A bridgehead is a military fortification that protects the end of a bridge that is closest to the enemy.
Bridgehead may also refer to:
- Bridgehead Coffee, a Canadian coffeehouse business
- "Bridgehead" atoms in a bicyclic molecule or polycyclic compound, shared by two or more cycles
- Bridgehead, California, a community in California
- BridgeHead Software, a software company
- A headline in a book that is outside the normal hierarchy of sections
Usage examples of "bridgehead".
Bridging and amphib tank operations last night at Mirpur Khas, here, and Khewari, up here, appear to have been completely successful in establishing bridgeheads across the river and canal barriers along the edge of the desert.
French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!
At Szeged the Russians have very soon gained a strong bridgehead which we are unable to dent, and from which they make a swift thrust N.
The new Russian assault on the Theiss is considerably delayed and weakened by this interruption of their lines of communication, at least in this northern sector, but they are able to keep expanding the big bridgehead at Szeged and joining it up with a smaller one further north.
He could try other more energetic transmissions, bursts of positrons, muons, gamma rays, or antiprotons that might attract attention to the Bridgehead.
It had been his first bridgehead in space, and was still the key to the planets.
Reports of English dogcapture positions near Elbe bridgehead in Lauenburg and of American dogcapture in Fichtel Mountains unconfirmed.
When the way was open, it was to come through first, to survey the new space and secure a bridgehead for their invasion.
Those in favor of dismantling the first bridgehead were called, by someone, Seekers of the Holy Grail, and the name of Grail stuck to that area of opencast mining.
Once the first nerve connections had established their bridgeheads, message traffic flooded the available channels.
Enemy armored spearheads reach the Oder and establish a bridgehead near Steinau.
Two morsels of drifting marine food, he thought, about to be sucked into the enormous waiting funnel of the bridgehead, digested into the heart of Cerberus.
She had named the vast conic object the bridgehead, because that was its function.
Shock waves would rush up the length of the bridgehead as it hit the surface, but piezoelectric crystal boundaries would gradually bleed energy from the shock waves, energy which could be redirected into weapons systems.
The impact speed would be relatively slow, in any case -- less than a kilometre a second, since the bridgehead would decelerate massively just before puncturing the crust.