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Definition of Abattises
1. abattis [n] - See also: abattis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abattises
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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