Examples of 'breastwork' in a sentence
Meaning of "breastwork"
Breastwork is a noun that signifies a protective barrier or fortification typically constructed from earth or other materials
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- A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.
- A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
- A parapet.
- Breast augmentation.
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Take care of the above breastwork.
A breastwork is a fortification.
Vixen was an armoured gunboat of the breastwork type.
A breastwork was thrown up around it partially made from wood taken from dismantled houses.
They are all hiding behind a breastwork.
They had thrown up a breastwork from behind which they opposed the landing.
Reed proposed to overcome this risk by the addition of an armoured breastwork.
He ordered his men to construct a breastwork from nearby logs and brush.
They also had to withstand the first wave of attacks when defending a breastwork.
It usually just consisted of a low rampart with a breastwork that protected its defending infantry.
A breastwork with cannon lined the island 's riverbanks.
They dug a trench around it and threw up a breastwork of earth and fagots.
This book is the breastwork of kings and tyrants - the enslaver of women and children.
Confederate counterattacks, however, succeeded in recapturing the breastwork positions.
If it explodes nearby, the breastwork shields you from flying debris.
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When Sullivan sent several regiments to scale the ravine, they fell back to a breastwork.
He seized a Yankee foe, and made A breastwork of the soldier.
They also constructed three small v-shaped trenches between this dirt wall and Prescott 's breastwork.
Cramped by the breastwork there!
Cramped by the breastwork there! Take over here, Chubarikov.
By the end of that day, they had also constructed a wooden breastwork above the trenches.
Gold ; and he caused a breastwork to be built before them, that.
Inside, the Royalists shot from behind a jury-rigged breastwork of dead horses.
Cerberus-class breastwork monitor.
Meantime Wagner 's conquerors were pouring across the breastwork like water over a dam.
