embrasure
battlement
barbican
porthole
port
battlemented
pillbox
machicolation
barricade
gun pit
field of fire
crenel
crenelle
load
land
quartering
cartridge belt
barbette
breach
merlon
gorge
caponier
loophole
retrenchment
gate
fortify
motti
barricadoed
terreplein
fort
chamber
genouillère
quoin
nest
siegework
rampart
murdress
hain
periphractic
gun emplacement
impale
abattage
weapons emplacement
defilement
family Dasypodidae
salient
salvo
Dasypodidae
miner
fire step
pillow
manual
crenellation
fortification
bonnet
cincture
rear of barrel
counterembattled
breech
rear of tube
embattle
hedge in
sanctuary
notch
incisura
indentedly
hedge
chambering
bastillion
encysted
gun carriage
phragmosis
striker
dig in
firebase
enclosable
shield wall
boresighting
handguard
defilade
cavalier
curtain wall
talon
dead angle
entrench
hornwork
retrench
shut
entrenchment
oak
forework
in
intrenchment
fess
murder hole
battlemented
barricadoed
periphractic
counterembattled
encysted
enclosable
indentedly
in
embrasure
battlement
barbican
porthole
port
pillbox
machicolation
barricade
gun pit
field of fire
crenel
crenelle
land
quartering
cartridge belt
barbette
breach
merlon
gorge
caponier
loophole
retrenchment
gate
motti
terreplein
genouillère
quoin
nest
siegework
rampart
murdress
gun emplacement
abattage
weapons emplacement
defilement
family Dasypodidae
salient
salvo
Dasypodidae
miner
fire step
pillow
manual
crenellation
fortification
bonnet
cincture
rear of barrel
breech
rear of tube
sanctuary
notch
incisura
chambering
bastillion
gun carriage
phragmosis
striker
firebase
shield wall
boresighting
handguard
defilade
cavalier
curtain wall
talon
dead angle
hornwork
entrenchment
oak
forework
intrenchment
fess
murder hole
load
fortify
fort
chamber
hain
impale
embattle
hedge in
hedge
dig in
entrench
retrench
shut
noun
- In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
- The towering roof of heaven.
- Any high wall for defense.
noun
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
adj
verb
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship
- bring to port
- land at or reach a port
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
- carry, bear, convey, or bring
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
- drink port
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
noun
noun
- a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
verb
noun
- a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
verb
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- To put runners on first, second and third bases
- To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- To provide in abundance.
- To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- To receive a load.
- To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- to top up or purchase phone credits
- To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To be put into use in an apparatus.
- To put a load on something.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
noun
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- The viral load
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- Nonsense; rubbish.
- prepaid phone credit
- The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- A large number or amount.
- The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
noun
- The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- lant; urine
- The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- A country or region.
- A shock or fright.
verb
- To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
- (of a blow) To deliver.
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- To come into rest.
- To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- To acquire; to secure.
- To go down well with an audience.
- To bring to land.
- (of a punch) To connect
- To capture or arrest.
noun
- The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
- A division into four parts.
- One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
- The practice of docking 15 minutes' pay from a worker who arrived late (even by less than 15 minutes).
- Searching for prey by traversing a space. From hunting for game, where dogs will run parallel to the wind in search of a scent, thereby 'quatering' the field.
- A series of quarters, or small upright posts.
- A point on an arch calculated by measuring one quarter of the height along a line from the peak to the outer edge on the ground.
- The act of providing housing for military personnel, especially when imposed upon the home of a private citizen.
- The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
adj
noun
- The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- The groove of a pulley.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- An act of gorging.
- A concave moulding; a cavetto.
verb
- To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
- To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
adj
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
verb
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
verb
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- To enclose in a room.
- To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
noun
- One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- The private office of a judge.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- A single law office in a building housing several.
- The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- A bedroom.
- An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
noun
- A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
- Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
- The keystone of an arch.
- A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
- A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
verb
noun
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- 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.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- A steep bank of a river or gorge.
verb
noun
noun
- An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
- An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
adj
noun
- A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
verb
noun
noun
- An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
- Any bird of one of four species of Australian endemic honeyeaters in the genus Manorina.
- A person who works in a mine.
- Any bird of one of several species of South American ovenbirds in the genus Geositta.
- Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency; someone engaged in mining.
noun
- A drill in the use of weapons, etc.
- A vehicle with a manual transmission.
- A similar maneuver on a skateboard, lifting the front or back wheels while keeping the tail or nose of the board from touching the ground.
- A keyboard for the hands on a harpsichord, organ, or other musical instrument.
- Manual control or operation.
- A handbook.
- An old office-book like the modern Roman Catholic ritual.
- A manual typewriter (as contrasted with an electronic one).
- Manual measurement of the blood pressure, done with a manual sphygmomanometer.
- A bicycle technique whereby the front wheel is held aloft by the rider, without the use of pedal force.
- A manual transmission; a gearbox, especially of a motorized vehicle, shifted by the operator.
- A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.
adj
noun
- A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
- The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
- Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example around the bezel of a flashlight.
noun
- That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
- A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
- The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
- An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
noun
- A small defence work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
- A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
- The second stomach of a ruminant.
- A ducat, an old Scottish coin worth 40 shillings.
- A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
- A traditional Scottish woollen brimless cap; a bunnet.
- A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
- In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
- A mushroom of the genus Mycena.
- A type of hat, once worn by women or children, held in place by ribbons tied under the chin.
- The polishing head of a power buffer, often made of wool.
- The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car; a hood.
- A length of canvas attached to a fore-and-aft sail to increase the pulling power.
verb
noun
noun
- A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
- An individual who is on strike.
- An officer's servant or orderly.
- A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
- A piece of metal struck against a flint or quartz-rock to produce sparks; a steel.
- A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
- A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
- The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
- The batter.
- One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
noun
- A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers
- Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- A Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a small breed of spaniel of English origin with a silky, smooth coat and commonly a smooth undocked tail.
- A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
adj
noun
- The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
- One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
- A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
- A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
- The remaining stock of undealt cards.
- A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.
verb
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- To take up a new defensive position.
verb
- To confine in an enclosed area.
- To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
- To close, to stop being open.
- To close, to stop from being open.
- To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
noun
- The act or time of shutting; close.
- The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.
- A door or cover; a shutter.
- A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
adj
noun
- The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
- A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
- Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
- The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
- Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
- The flavor of oak.
- Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
- Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
- The wood of the oak.
- A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
- Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
adj
verb
adv
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- After the beginning of something.
- The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
prep
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- During (a period of time).
- Into.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Characterized by.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- In the form of, in the denomination of.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Contained by.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- Incoming.
- Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Having been collected or received.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Currently batting.
- He is very in with the Joneses.
- Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Furled or stowed.
- Located inside something.
noun
English words for 'Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.'
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