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Balcony
noun · 78% connection
A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Baluster
noun · 78% connection
A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Barricade
noun · 78% connection
A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Bonanza
noun · 78% connection
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Brattice
noun · 78% connection
A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Bulkhead
noun · 78% connection
A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
By-blow
noun · 78% connection
A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Costeaning
noun · 78% connection
The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Countermine
noun · 78% connection
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Draw
verb · 78% connection
To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Ecoute
noun · 78% connection
One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Epaulement
noun · 78% connection
A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Fastness
adjective · 78% connection
A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Flank
noun · 78% connection
The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Fougasse
noun · 78% connection
A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a posit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Gallery
adjective · 78% connection
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
Gastrula
noun · 78% connection
An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, mine, formed, wall, side.
