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Counterguard

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fortification curtainnoun(architecture) The section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like.
counterfortnounA buttress built against a wall.
rampartnounA 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.
countermurenounA wall raised behind another, to supply its place when that is breached or destroyed.
cavaliernounA gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
forewallnounThe foremost outer wall of a fortification; rampart, bulwark.
covered waynounIn 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.
bulwarknounA defense or safeguard.
hornworknounA 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.
outworknounAgricultural work done outdoors in the fields.
wallnounA 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.
gueritenounA projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
ringwallnounA circular rampart.
curtainnounA piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
enceintenounAn enclosure.
bawnnounA cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
burgwallnounA hillfort, a walled fortification.

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