'Glacis' definitions:
Definition of 'Glacis'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'glacis'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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