Word Meanings - RAVELIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.

• Raisable
  Capable of being raised.
• PLACEKICK
  To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Curtain
  A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the
• Placeman
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
• Raised
  of Raise
• PLACEPROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
• Callisection
  Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.
• Curtained
  of Curtain
• Placement
  The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
• Raising
  of Raise
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Curtaining
  of Curtain
• Placentae
  of Placenta

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