crownwork

English

Etymology

crown +‎ work

Noun

crownwork (plural crownworks)

  1. A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.
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