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单词 skitegate
释义

skitegaten.

Forms: Also skyt-gate.
Etymology: < Dutch schiet-gat, < schieten to shoot + gat hole.
Obsolete. rare.
An opening or loophole in a wall for a cannon or other piece of artillery.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure
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1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 118 Great Cannon Gabions well fill'd with Earth, or Skite Gates thorow the Flanks and Faces of the said Works.
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (1877) I. 93 Captain Julius..being so astonish'd with fear as to throw himself and his fellows out at a skyt-gate [Fr. une canonniere], was immediately cut to pieces by the enemy.
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