Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, an outwork with two salient and three reëntering angles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also
swallowtail .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
redan infortifications ; aswallowtail .
Etymologies
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priest + cap, from its shape.
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