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Forewall

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Forewall"

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bulwarknounA defense or safeguard.
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.
wallnounA rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
fortification curtainnoun(architecture) The section of a wall or rampart between two gates, bastions, towers or the like.
burgwallnounA hillfort, a walled fortification.
barricadenounA barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
bastionnoun(figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
vauntmurenounA false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
curtainnounA piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
parapetnounA low protective wall.
counterguardnoun(fortification) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
spurnoun(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
vallationnoun(archaic) A rampart or entrenchment.
curtain wallnoun(architecture) The non-load-bearing outer skin of a modern building.
dropwallnounA short wall used as a weir or floodgate to control the flow of water.
linenounA path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
counterfortnounA buttress built against a wall.
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.
enceintenounAn enclosure.
ringwallnounA circular rampart.

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  • theforewall
  • aforewall

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  • forewallof

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