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breastwork

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My station was on the right of the line, where the breastwork, ending in a redoubt, was steep and high.

Our camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead—a bulwark, a breastwork, of corpses, you may say.

I found the reserves had thrown up a breastwork from the Ohio 348 to the Kanawha, thus inclosing the camp on the Point.

He was on the crest of the hill, and at every lull in the strife his men piled the loose stones into a rude breastwork.

They move upon the run,—up to the breastwork of rails,—bearing Hancock's line to the top of the ridge,—so powerful their momentum.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to breastwork, such as: bulwark, citadel, fortress, mainstay, stronghold, and defense.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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