Definition of Outwork. Meaning of Outwork. Synonyms of Outwork

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Definition of Outwork

Outwork
Outwork Out*work", v. t. To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.
Outwork
Outwork Out"work`, n. (Fort.) A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. --Wilhelm.

Meaning of Outwork from wikipedia

- An outwork is a minor fortification built or established outside the prin****l fortification limits, detached or semidetached. Outworks such as ravelins...
- The putting-out system is a means of subcontracting work, like a tailor. Historically, it was also known as the workshop system and the domestic system...
- ditches running along the eastern and north-eastern boundary and a defensive outwork to the southeast. The site has a commanding position overlooking Conwy...
- material. The redan developed from the lunette, originally a half-moon-shaped outwork; with shorter flanks it became a redan. Redans were a common feature in...
- A flèche (Fr. for "arrow") is an outwork consisting of two converging faces with a parapet and an open gorge, forming an arrowhead shape facing the enemy...
- An advanced work, advance-work or advanced outwork is a fortification or outwork in front of the main defensive building or castle. In the Middle Ages...
- rear of an outwork for access by defending troops from the main defensive position Hill fort (New Zealand: Pa (Māori)) Lunette: an outwork consisting...
- outworks; the bottom-most image, a priest's cap, has two tenailles. Also shown is another approach to protect a gate; the roughly triangular outwork seen...
- characteristics as historicism (identifying historical events as relating to the outworking of God's purpose), absolutism (conviction that Jehovah's Witness leaders...
- A ravelin is a triangular fortification or detached outwork, located in front of the innerworks of a fortress (the curtain walls and bastions). Originally...