💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Counterguard"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| fortification curtainnoun | (architecture) The section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like. |
| counterfortnoun | A buttress built against a wall. |
| rampartnoun | A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose. |
| countermurenoun | A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when that is breached or destroyed. |
| cavaliernoun | A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly: |
| forewallnoun | The foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark. |
| covered waynoun | In a fortification, a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrison an open line of communication around the works, and a standing place beyond the ditch. |
| bulwarknoun | A defense or safeguard. |
| hornworknoun | A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them. |
| bastionnoun | (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle. |
| vallationnoun | (archaic) A rampart or entrenchment. |
| outworknoun | Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields. |
| wallnoun | A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes. |
| tower bastionnoun | (fortifications) A bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works. |
| gueritenoun | A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions. |
| ringwallnoun | A circular rampart. |
| curtainnoun | A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. |
| enceintenoun | An enclosure. |
| bawnnoun | A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle. |
| burgwallnoun | A hillfort, a walled fortification. |
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