Wiktionary
alt. (context military UK English) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post. n. (context military UK English) A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
Wikipedia
A sangar (or sanger) is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, and now built of sandbags and similar materials. Sangars are normally constructed in terrain where the digging of trenches would not be practicable. The term is still frequently used by the British Army.
The word was adopted from Persian and Pashto and derives originally from the Persian word sang, "stone". Its first appearance in English (as recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary) is in the form sunga, and dates from 1841. The word is found throughout Indo-Persian settlements as a surname.
Sangar ( Persian: سنگر) is a surname found primarily in the Middle East among Persian people. It is most common in Iran. The surname is also seen among the Brahmin people of Kashmir due to the heavy Persian influence and immigration. Sangar originally comes from the Persian word sang and many villages in Iran are named after the surname.
Sangar may also refer to:
Usage examples of "sangar".
It was overlooked by Baruki sangar, which was less than a hundred meters away from the security forces base that we lived in.
Named after a paratrooper called Baruki who got blown up, the sangar was a big corrugated iron and steel structure.
I was in Baruki sangar one day with a lance cor oral p called Bob, short for Billy One Bollock, I never knew where the nickname came from because he looked as if he were complete.
While the lads were checking out the special of the day, a player walked behind the sangar and placed a bomb.
Two companies of the Gloucesters lined a sangar on the tread of the sole, to prevent any one getting too near to the heel.
The officer who hoisted it could see no one unhurt save himself, for all in his sangar were hit, and the others were so placed that he was under the impression that they had withdrawn altogether.
The defence had no marked advantage as compared with the attack, neither trench, sangar, nor wire entanglement, and in numbers they were immensely inferior.
Aziz commits you to nothing, you see, since a male has no sangar membrane.
Island of Jesso, through Hakodadi, and across the Straits of Sangar, to Jeddo, the capital of Japan.
At any rate the column broke and men fled toward the sangar without waiting for orders.
He tore away the ropes and the horses, frantic from the noise and smell of blood, stampeded into the sangar, knocking men down and trampling them.
And of the outlying towers, only my sangar remains, which lies between this spot and Khoruk.
Castle when one of the men caught up with me and told me that Baber Ali had ridden off in the direction of his sangar and left you with his four tribesmen.
At the head, or in the rear, of a Carizmian army, Soliman Shah was drowned in the passage of the Euphrates: his son Orthogrul became the soldier and subject of Aladin, and established at Surgut, on the banks of the Sangar, a camp of four hundred families or tents, whom he governed fifty-two years both in peace and war.
Except for shelling, we were left unmolested during the night and next morning, which gave us the opportunity of constructing sangars, making tracks for the pack transport animals, and generally making ourselves more comfortable.