redoubt

redoubt
    n 1: (military) a temporary or supplementary fortification;
         typically square or polygonal without flanking defenses
    2: an entrenched stronghold or refuge
    

Redoubt \Re*doubt"\, v. t. [F. redouter, formerly also spelt
   redoubter; fr. L. pref. re- re- + dubitare to doubt, in LL.,
   to fear. See {Doubt}.]
   To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [R.]
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Redoubt \Re*doubt"\ (r?*dout"), n. [F. redoute, fem., It.
   ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus
   drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back;
   cf. F. r['e]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and
   cf. {Reduct}, {R['e]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.)
   (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or
       outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a
       temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used
       esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and
       positions in hostile territory.
   (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another
       outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written
       also {redout}.]
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60 Moby Thesaurus words for "redoubt":
      abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
      barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan,
      bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate,
      cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, citadel, contravallation,
      counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork,
      enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fastness, fence,
      fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, fortress, glacis, loophole,
      lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade,
      parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin,
      redan, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, stronghold, tenaille,
      vallation, vallum, work