Noun:

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ravelins's Usage Examples:

comprises only a low rampart and which is sited in front of the actual fortress moat that runs around the bastions or ravelins.

The new belt included twelve bastions, three ravelins, seven spoil banks and two fortresses, surrounded by a water moat.

small outwork that was built in front of the actual fortress ditch before bastions or ravelins.

geometric earthworks; the ground plan was polygonal with a pentangle bastion at each salient angle, covered by ravelins, hornworks, crownworks, demi-lunes.

A couvreface in fortification architecture is a small outwork that was built in front of the actual fortress ditch before bastions or ravelins.

In the 17th century the walls were rebuilt and reinforced by bastions, ravelins and artillery batteries.

Outworks such as ravelins, lunettes (demilunes), flèches and caponiers to shield bastions and fortification.

ravelins and tenailles were added to protect the curtain walls from direct cannonading.

fortification system that usually comprises only a low rampart and which is sited in front of the actual fortress moat that runs around the bastions or ravelins.

shaped like a horseshoe, featured 4 fortification curtains, 3 detached ravelins and a lunette in the western part, East Fort and West Fort.

The three ravelins on the north elevation.

Gothenburg developed with 13 polygonal bastions and accompanying moat, ravelins and 3 city gates (Kungsporten; Nya porten, later renamed Drottningporten;.

curtain walls was reduced, and beyond the ditch, additional outworks such as ravelins and tenailles were added to protect the curtain walls from direct cannonading.