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
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
In the late afternoon, my guide Izabela meets me outside a McDonald’s next to a historic rampart that once was part of the city walls.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2016
He has already transmitted the location of one air-defense battery: a cannon on a shelf of rampart beside the Hotel of Bees.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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