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Definition of Crownwork

1. Noun. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth. "Tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown"

Definition of Crownwork

1. n. A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.

Definition of Crownwork

1. Noun. A type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress. ¹

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Literary usage of Crownwork

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

1. American Journal of Education (1862)
"Ordinary siege battery, battery in a parallel, battery in a crownwork. ... Particular case of crownwork batteries. Fifty-sixth Lecture.—(6. ..."

2. Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826 by Bernhard, Karl Bernard (1828)
"The eminence on. which this crownwork lies, in some measure commands the ... Between the fort and crownwork we remarked the remains of two square redoubts. ..."

3. Military Schools and Courses of Instruction in the Science and Art of War in by Henry Barnard (1862)
"Ordinary siege battery, battery in a parallel, battery in a crownwork. ... Particular case of crownwork batteries. Fifty-sixth Lecture.—(6. ..."

4. Military Schools and Courses of Instruction in the Science and Art of War by Henry Barnard (1872)
"Ordinary siege battery, battery in a parallel, battery in a crownwork. ... Particular case of crownwork batteries. Fifty-sixth Lecture.—(6. ..."

5. The History of the Baltic Campaign of 1854 by Charles Napier (1857)
"... and one crownwork are built—the crownwork consisting of barracks forming two bastioned fronts. ..."

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