field-fortification

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• Fortification

  ·noun The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• fortification

  The art by which a place is so fortified that a given number of men occupying it may advantageously ...

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• Field

  ·vi To take the field. II. Field ·noun The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. III...

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• Field

  (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• field

  The country in which military operations are being carried on; the scene of a conflict. ♦ Taking t...

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• Field

  The Hebrew sadeh is applied to any cultivated ground, and in some instances in marked opposition to ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• natural fortification

  Those obstacles, in the form or nature of the country, which impede the approaches of an enemy. ...

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• Fuller's field

  A spot near Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Isa. 36:2; 7:3), on the side of the highway west of the city, ...

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• Potters field

  The name given to the piece of ground which was afterwards bought with the money that had been given...

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• Field, Nathaniel

  (1587-1633) Dramatist and actor, was one of "the children of the Queen's Revels," who performed in ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• "Field, Michael"

  Poet (pen-name adopted by two ladies, understood to be Miss Bradley and Miss Cooper). Callirrhoé (18...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Field Lane

  North out of Holborn to Great Saffron Hill. The southern end only is in Farringdon Ward Without, the...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• gold-field

  n. district where mining for goldis carried on. 1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria, c. xv. p....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• quartz-field

  n. a non-alluvial goldfield. 1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6, col. 1: «Our principal quartz-fiel...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• field-allowance

  A small extra payment made to officers, and sometimes to privates, on active service in the field, t...

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• field-artillery

  Light ordnance fitted for travel as to be applicable to the active operations of the field. The term...

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• field-day

  A day of exercise and evolutions. ...

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• field-glass

  A telescope, frequently so termed. Also, the binocular or opera-glass, used for field-work, night-wo...

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• field-gun

  See field-artillery. ...

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• field-ice

  A sheet of smooth frozen water of a general thickness, and of an extent too large for its boundaries...

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• field-marshal

  The highest rank in the British army. ...

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• field-officers

  The colonel, lieutenant-colonels, and majors of a regiment; so called because, not having the common...

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• field-pieces

  Light guns proper to be taken into field operations; one or more of them is now carried by all ships...

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• field-works

  The constructions of field-fortification (which see). ...

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• front of fortification

  The whole system of works included between the salient angles, or the capitals prolonged, of any two...

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• Zophim, Field of

  Field of watchers, a place in Moab on the range of Pisgah (Num. 23:14). To this place Balak brought ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• field lane duck

  A baked sheep's head. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• field of view

  That space which is visible in a telescope at one view, and which diminishes under augmenting eye-pi...

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• Fullers Field, The

  a spot near Jerusalem, (2 Kings 8:17; Isaiah 7:3; 36:2) so close to the walls that a person speaking...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Potters Field, The

  a piece of ground which, according to the statement of St. Matthew, (Matthew 27:7) was purchased by ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• vent-field of a gun

  The raised tablet in the metal near the breech in which the vent is bored. ...

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