Rondel: alternatives and connections

lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.

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…

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.

A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting the…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.

A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.

Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illus…

The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion…

A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, us…