Definition of Abattises

1. Noun. (plural of abattis) ¹

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Definition of Abattises

1. abattis [n] - See also: abattis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abattises

abathochroally
abatic
abating
abatis
abatised
abatises
abatjour
abatjours
abaton
abator
abators
abatsons
abattage
abattis
abattised
abattises (current term)
abattoir
abattoirlike
abattoirs
abattu
abature
abatures
abatvent
abatvents
abatvoix
abatvoixes
abax
abaxes
abaxial
abaxially

Literary usage of Abattises

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoir Upon the Late War in North America Between the French and English by Pierre Pouchot, Franklin Benjamin Hough (1866)
"... nevertheless, have the advantage of finding the rivers frozen, and the woods full of snow, which covers their abattises. By the aid of their snow shoes, ..."

2. Christian Pamphlets by Horatio Quincey Butterfield, Martin S. Howard, J. G. Wortley, Truman Marcellus Post, James A.. Reed, A. F. Bourns, Norman C. Mallory, T. C. Trowbridge, Edmund Woodmansee Borden, William McLeod Barbour, Sereno Dickenson Clark, Julian Monson Sturtevant, (1859)
"And when we come upon the enemy's territory, we find it a fortified field ; all engineered into bastions, abattises and trenches, all bristling with the ..."

3. An Original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart by Joseph Simms (1873)
"... you would prefer open-field fighting to that behind parapets, walls, breastworks, entrenchments, towers, dykes, abattises, or portcullises. 16 3. ..."

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