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单词 hill-fort
释义 hill-fort
A fort constructed on a hill.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvi. (1859) 434 A sudden flash and a jet of white smoke puffed out from the hill fort above the town.1862Beveridge Hist. India III. vii. iii. 84 The hill-fort of Wusota.
b. esp. A hill-top fortification of prehistoric age.
1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. iii. 90 The simple circular hill-forts wherein we trace the mere rudimentary efforts of a people in the infancy of the arts.1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. viii. 219 That class of towns which, out of Gaulish hill-forts grew into Roman and mediæval cities.
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