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line of defence
  1. n. any organization whose responsibility it is to defend against something; "police are the major line of defense against crime" [syn: line of defense]

  2. defensive structure consisting of a barrier that can be employed for defense against attack [syn: line of defense]

Usage examples of "line of defence".

Perhaps, in finding it, you think you've defeated my last line of defence.

And that I may not be alone in taking this simple and ingenuous line of defence, my brother, by no means a suspicious person, says: 'I know of nothing more, I can bring no further proof than his having come to my house with a sword.

Theoparlis and the Guards crashed through the last line of defence and, as Onomarchus turned to meet the attack, a sarissa clove through his leather kilt, smashing his hip and ripping the giant artery at the groin.

The shark held on to his paw, its only line of defence and attack, and thrashed its tail.

Sixty feet high, and four hundred paces in length, it had been the first line of defence.

Scrawled across it in charcoal was the new line of defence: Capalis to the west, Larian and Ectanis to the east.

We drummed across with the troop at our heels and came into the rear of the Khalsa position - their last line of defence where the general staff directed operations, aides hurried to and fro between the tents and hutments, carts of wounded rum-bled through to the bridge, and all was activity and uproar - but it was a disciplined bedlam, I noticed, in spite of the deafening crash of guns and musketry rolling back from the lines.

As to your third line of defence, I must admit that my difficulties are considerable.

Petherick said, very up to date in his methods, and he had indicated a certain line of defence.

But even the best line of defence may ignore completely what is, to my mind, the vital point.