Definition of Breastwork. Meaning of Breastwork. Synonyms of Breastwork

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Definition of Breastwork

Breastwork
Breastwork Breast"work` (br[e^]st"w[^u]rk`), n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. 2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

Meaning of Breastwork from wikipedia

- A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it...
- up breastwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breastwork may mean: Breastwork (fortification), a temporary military fortification Breastwork monitor...
- Breastworks Branch is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. A variant name was "Breastwork Branch". Breastworks Branch was so named on account of a breastwork...
- A breastwork monitor was a modification of the monitor, a warship which was first built in the United States in 1861, designed by John Ericsson and distinguished...
- Confederate Breastworks is a historic breastworks located at Fayetteville, ****berland County, North Carolina. The earthen bunkers are located on the grounds...
- The Cerberus-class breastwork monitor was a pair of breastwork monitors built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. Also referred to as "ironclads" and "turret...
- Monitor Breastwork monitor, a type of turret ship with a raised superstructure and higher freeboard than the first monitors List of breastwork monitors...
- U-boat Wet sub Miscellaneous Armed merchantman ****nal ship Barracks ship Breastwork monitor Capital ship Drone carrier Flagship Floating battery Guard ship...
- point of attack was the extreme north-easterly angle of the enemy's breastworks, and the plan of the ****ault was briefly as follows:--The 75th New York...
- U-boat Wet sub Miscellaneous Armed merchantman ****nal ship Barracks ship Breastwork monitor Capital ship Drone carrier Flagship Floating battery Guard ship...