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outworks's Usage Examples:

Unlike Java, Sumatra has a series of considerable islands (Nias Islands, Mentawi Islands, 'c.) arranged like outworks in front of the west coast, which faces the open Indian Ocean.

in circumference, and the fort can only be approached by steep and very roughly paved planes, commanded by the fort and the outworks, and by the hill to the west.

Eastward, within 2 m., there are two great British camps: Battlesbury, almost impregnable save on the north, where its entrenchments are double; and Scratchbury, a line of outworks encircling an area of some 40 acres, with three entrances and a citadel in the midst.

At the same time the ancient graveyards round the city were swept smooth and levelled; obstructions were demolished, outworks constructed, and the defences generally renovated.

By his orders castles were built at the mouth of the Don and on the bank of the Dnieper, outworks against the ever-aggressive Tatars, as well as on either shore of the Dardanelles.

The old outworks have been partly demolished and replaced by modern forts, while suburbs have grown up round the inner walls and bastions.

The long straight lines of works which stretched to the plateau of the Michelsberg and formed the outworks of the main fortress on the left bank of the Danube were purchased in 1900 by the municipal authorities, in order to be levelled and laid out in streets for the extension of the town in this direction.

high, a gateway and some outworks.

The duchy of Warsaw and the fortress of Danzig formed new outworks of his power and enabled him to overawe Russia.

A strong wall and bastions, with a broad moat and outworks, and forts on the surrounding heights, give the city an appearance of great strength.

outworks's Meaning':

subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area

Synonyms:

defence, defensive structure, defense,

Antonyms:

prosecution, question, offence, offense,