| 单词 | half-caponier |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-caponier half-caponier n. Fortification (now historical) a communication passage or trench constructed with one parapet and glacis only. Π 1817 C. W. Pasley Course Mil. Instr. II. vii. 118 Therefore a half caponier, or, in other words, a communication constructed with one parapet and glacis only, is quite sufficient for the ditch of the ravelin. 1908 tr. A. Von Schwartz Infl. of Siege Port Arthur upon Mod. Fortresses (U.S. War Dept.) viii. 154 Should the flanking galleries be retained..or should they be replaced by the old type of caponiers and half-caponiers near the scarp? 2014 J. E. Kaufmann & H. W. Kaufmann Forts & Fortifications of Europe 1815–1945 ii. 83 Each had half-caponiers at the corner of the front wall with a double caponier attached to the centre of the front wall. half-caponier Categories » half-caponier n. (Sir G. Duckett, Mil. Dict.) < as lemmas |
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