Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis.
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Detach>>. II. Detached ·adj Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
On detached service. A squadron may be detached under a commodore or senior officer. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
All fortificational constructions, whether permanent, field, or makeshifts of the moment; from the m...
A bastion cut off by a ditch about its gorge from the body of the place, which latter is thus render...
An escarp wall, originally invented by Carnot, and revived by the Prussians, removed some distance t...
·- A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. ...
·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...
·- ·see under Iron, ·adj. ...
The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...
The constructions of field-fortification (which see). ...
See pyrotechny. ...
Large copper boilers, for boiling the blubber in whalers. ...
That part of a ship which rises from the water's surface when she is properly trimmed for a voyage. ...
Entered into by God with Adam as the representative of the human race (comp. Gen. 9:11, 12; 17:1-21)...
On the west side of Old London Bridge, opposite St. Magnus Church, in Bridge Ward Within (O. and M. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.