01 n. A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
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A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.(Fort.) See: Bastion
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A half horseshoe, which lacks the sponge.(Far.)
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A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
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A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
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Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.(Arch.)
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An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
Phrases & compounds
Lunette window —
a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.