"Antemural" is a word in ENGLISH

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the …

A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected …

All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as, …

A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

An outwork.

The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long …

A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.

A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.

To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

palamakurán - Fortress, fort, stronghold, rampart, outwork, fortification; strength. (cf. bákud, pamákud).

A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; …

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the …

In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.

A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and …

An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called …

An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.