lisièren.
Fortification. ? Obsolete.
= berm n., foreland n. 2b.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > ground behind rampart > ground between rampart and ditch
foreland1704
lisière1706
berm1729
ledge1729
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lisiere,..a Term in Fortification, the same as Berme and Fore-land.
1758 J. Watson Mil. Dict. Foreland, Barm, Berm, or Lizier.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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n.1706- nighside
- nighsilent
- nighsome
- nighsomeness
- night
- night adder
- night air
- night alarm
- night ambling
- night and day
- night ape
- night ascent
- night attack
- night attendant
- night attire
- night bag
- night bait
- non-reciprocal
- non-recital
- non-recognition
- non-recoil
- non-recourse
- non-recourse loan
- non-rectangular
- non-rectified