'Contravallation' definitions:
Definition of 'Contravallation'
From: GCIDE
- Contravallation \Con`tra*val*la"tion\, n. [Pref. contra- + vallation: cf. F. contrevallation. Cf. Countervallation.] (Fort.) A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contravallation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- breastwork,
- bulwark,
- casemate,
- cheval-de-frise,
- circumvallation,
- counterscarp,
- curtain,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- glacis,
- loophole,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- outwork,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- sally port,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- stockade,
- tenaille,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- work