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Definition of Parados
1. n. An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
Definition of Parados
1. Noun. (military) An embankment built to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parados
1. a protective embankment [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parados
Literary usage of Parados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mahan's Permanent Fortifications by Dennis Hart Mahan, James Mercur (1887)
"In temporary batteries, and also in permanent ones which can only be attacked by
field or siege artillery, parados, even at short distances, ..."
2. Technique of Modern Tactics: A Study of Troop Leading Methods in the by Paul Stanley Bond, Michael Joseph McDonough (1916)
"A bank of earth as a parados should be placed behind and close to the ...
These parados should be sodded or otherwise concealed in the same manner as the ..."
3. Manual of Military Training by James Alfred Moss (1917)
"parados. Instead of shrapnel, explosive shell is most frequently used in the
European War. This necessitates the addition of a parados to the fire trench to ..."
4. Field Works: Their Technical Construction and Tactical Application by Charles Booth Brackenbury (1888)
"In addition to traverses and parados, field casemates should be constructed in
all works intended for serious defence. Several examples are given in the ..."
5. A Dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish: Containing the ...by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1809)
"Paradoxa, sm a parados, a strange proposition or opinion, different from the
general opinion of the world. Paradójico, adj. paradoxical, including an ..."
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