Banquette: alternatives and connections

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the ea…

A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a ban…

(formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet

a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire

A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.

To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…

The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…

A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver…

Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the e…

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the expo…

To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, a…

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

A work of earth, in the form of a single parapet or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.

To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.

To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.