| 单词 | wall walk |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswall walk wall walk n. Fortification and Architecture a footway along the top of a wall of a fortified building, town, etc., typically behind the battlements; a parapet walk. ΚΠ 1932 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 22 63 These thick reinforced masonry floors may well have been used to carry artillery. Access to them appears to have been from the wall-walk. 1951 H. Braun Introd. Eng. Mediaeval Archit. v. 100 The strong outer walls of the building were..carried right up to ridge level, at which was the wall-walk, protected by its parapet. 1985 Corfe Castle (Nat. Trust) (1990) 13 To facilitate the access to a wall-walk across to the south-west gatehouse. 2001 J. E. Kaufmann & H. W. Kaufmann Medieval Fortress (2004) ii. 71 The Roman city walls normally consisted of two masonry walls spaced about seven meters apart. The gap was filled with earth... A wall walk was formed above. < as lemmas |
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