单词 | skitegate |
释义 | † skitegaten. Obsolete. rare. An opening or loophole in a wall for a cannon or other piece of artillery. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure kernel?c1225 cornelc1300 carnelc1320 cornerc1400 vent1429 loop1477 crenel1481 gun-hole1532 spike1577 cannonery1598 spike-hole1598 casemate1611 porthole1637 skitegate1677 embrasure1702 crenelet1860 port1946 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1677 |
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