A projecting part of a fortification, shaped so as to allow defensive fire in several directions and typically located at an angle or corner of…

A bulwark, a bastion. Obsolete.

A rounded or semi-globular projecting part. A bastion. Cf. pome, n.1 5. Obsolete.

A work of the form of half a bastion, having one face and one flank.

A small low bastion placed in front of a long curtain wall, or in front of a projected fortification during construction.

(see quot. 1706).

a bastion, the interior surface of which is lower than the rampart; = hollow-bastion n. at hollow, adj. adv.compounds 3b; cf. full bastion n. at full…

Fortification. A circular tower or bastion; = rondel, n. 1c.

A small bastion, typically situated at the extremity of a bastion or other fortification.