rampart
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On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023
Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018
Even more alarming, Brinkman pointed out a spot along the waterfront where the wall ends and all that holds back the sea is a low, crumbling concrete rampart.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2017
‘Not far ahead now lies Helm’s Dike, an ancient trench and rampart scored across the coomb, two furlongs below Helm’s Gate. There we can turn and give battle.’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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