rampart
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
rampart
n 1: an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;
"they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the
trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn: {rampart},
{bulwark}, {wall}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rampart \Ram"part\ (r[a^]m"p[aum]rt), n. [F. rempart, OF.
rempar, fr. remparer to fortify, se remparer to fence or
intrench one's self; pref. re- re- + pref. en- (L. in) +
parer to defend, parry, prepare, L. parare to prepare. See
{Pare}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which
secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Fort.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon
which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of
every permanent fortification. --Mahan.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Bulwark; fence; security; guard.
Usage: {Rampart}, {Bulwark}. These words were formerly
interchanged; but in modern usage a distinction has
sprung up between them. The rampart of a fortified
place is the enceinte or entire main embankment or
wall which surrounds it. The term bulwark is now
applied to peculiarly strong outworks which project
for the defense of the rampart, or main work. A single
bastion is a bulwark. In using these words
figuratively, rampart is properly applied to that
which protects by walling out; bulwark to that which
stands in the forefront of danger, to meet and repel
it. Hence, we speak of a distinguished individual as
the bulwark, not the rampart, of the state. This
distinction, however, is often disregarded.
[1913 Webster]
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Rampart, AK (CDP, FIPS 64820)
Location: 65.38363 N, 150.01120 W
Population (1990): 68 (42 housing units)
Area: 604.3 sq km (land), 21.9 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99767
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Rampart, AK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alaska
Population (2000): 45
Housing Units (2000): 46
Land area (2000): 168.793819 sq. miles (437.173965 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 168.793819 sq. miles (437.173965 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64820
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 65.507350 N, 150.148496 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99767
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Rampart, AK
Rampart
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "rampart":
abatis, abutment, advanced work, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop,
balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar,
barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier,
bartizan, bastion, battlement, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam,
boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead,
bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, casemate,
cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation,
counterscarp, curtain, dam, defence, defense, demibastion, dike,
ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement,
escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, flying buttress, fortalice,
fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, guard,
hanging buttress, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty,
jutty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette,
machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound,
outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pier, pier buttress,
portcullis, postern gate, ravelin, redan, redoubt, retaining wall,
roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall,
security, shoulder, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, stronghold,
tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work
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