| 单词 | single or double tenaille |
| 释义 | > as lemmassingle or double tenaille 2. In Fortification, A small low work, consisting of one or two re-entering angles ( single or double tenaille), placed before the curtain between two bastions. tenaille of the place, the face of a fortress: see face n. 18. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angle re-entering between bastions tenaille1589 tenalia1649 1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 33 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres The defences in so small Forts as these proceede chiefly, either of bulwarks, halfe bulwarks, and tenailes [etc.]. 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 81 All sort of Works by which the Camp is invironed, and shut up, as Redoubts, Bastions, Ravelins, Forts, Tennailes, Hornworks [etc.]. 1708 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Sept. They will fill up the Ditch, in order to storm the Tenaile. 1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 214 A second party of forty or fifty men..attacked a tenaille which by its fire flanked one of the breaches. < as lemmas |
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