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Definition of Embrasures
1. embrasure [n] - See also: embrasure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrasures
Literary usage of Embrasures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Field Fortifications: For the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1898)
"Direct and oblique embrasures.—A direct embrasure is one in which the directrix is
... When possible, direct embrasures are the ones which are made. ..."
2. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"... then delivered their fire directly into the embrasures & then rushed thro'the
embrasures & took 150 Men [Plan of Attack on Quebec, by Dr. Stiles. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... battlements, and embrasures," adds, " on the eastern side yet stands part of
that venerable fabric which baffled the attempts of General Sarsfield, ..."
4. A Text-book of Military Engineering: For the Use of the Cadets of the United by Junius Brutus Wheeler, United States Military Academy (1884)
"embrasures.—An embrasure is a cut made in a parapet through which a cannon can
... The embrasures are said to be direct when the middle line of the sole is ..."
5. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"These were never successfully attacked, although Nelson was the commander, to
oppose whom they were constructed. face pierced with embrasures for cannon. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"22 and 25, and are supported beneath by the bolster-forming lower ends of the
embrasures 7 and 8, through which the respective electrodes extend toward each ..."
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