·Impf & ·p.p. of Detach.
II. Detached ·adj Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.
On detached service. A squadron may be detached under a commodore or senior officer. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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...
Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis....