What is a wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall called?
batardeau — (Mil.) A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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