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

- up breastwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breastwork may mean: Breastwork (fortification), a temporary military fortification Breastwork monitor...
- A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Latter-day Saints from 24 October 2003 to 18 April 2004. The Mormon Flat Breastworks, fortification structures listed on the National Register of Historic...
- The breastwork monitor was developed during the 1860s by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor design...
- 700 wagons tied together in a line. Between every second wagon was a breastwork for his musketeers to fire from. At several places in the line, he left...
- and served as coastal ships. The term also encomp****ed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship...
- HMS Abyssinia was a breastwork monitor ordered, designed and built by J & W Dudgeon specifically for the Bombay Marine for the defence of the harbour at...