Meaning of GLACIS
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| | Definition: | | \Gla"cis\, n. [F. glacis; -- so named from its
smoothness. See {Glacier}.]
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially
(Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered
way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of
{Ravelin}).
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| | Related Terms: | | abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bevel, bezel, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, chute, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, easy slope, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fleam, fortalice, fortification, gentle slope, grade, gradient, hanging gardens, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, launching ramp, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pitch, portcullis, postern gate, ramp, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, shelving beach, side, slope, steep slope, stiff climb, stockade, talus, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work |
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