Rampart

Noun

 * 1) A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
 * 2) A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
 * 3) That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
 * 4) plural A steep bank of a river or gorge.

Verb

 * 1) To defend with a rampart; fortify or surround with a rampart.

Derived terms

 * ramparted

Related terms

 * fraise

Thesaurus
abatis, abutment, advanced work, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defence, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, flying buttress, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, guard, hanging buttress, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, jutty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pier, pier buttress, portcullis, postern gate, ravelin, redan, redoubt, retaining wall, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, security, shoulder, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stronghold, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

Etymology
From rempart: < remparer: < re-: + emparer: < en-: + parer:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"r{m.pA:t/}}

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * German: Festungswall
 * Italian:
 * German: Festungswall
 * Italian:
 * Italian:


 * Polish: wał obronny, szaniec
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Welsh: rhagfur
 * Welsh: rhagfur


 * Dutch: bolwerk
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Bollwerk


 * Ido:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,


 * Finnish: suojavarustus
 * German: Bollwerk


 * Polish: szaniec
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:


 * German:

Verb

 * Georgian: მიწაყრილი
 * Polish: bronić, ochraniać


 * Russian: обносить валом