rampart

On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023

“If this wall breaks, there’s simply no holding back the Java Sea,” said Brinkman, gesturing from the rampart toward the city.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

It demolished a dusty rampart along the border with Syria in an act supposedly symbolizing the smashing of colonial boundaries.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2016

The Paramour Mansion stands behind a wrought-iron gate and a rampart of pine trees at the top of a steep hill.

From The Guardian ● May 12, 2016

The sun has gone down over the rampart walls, and the guards manning them turn into silhouettes.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025

All along the old walls and ramparts people were standing.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

His faith was as firm as the bluffs that ramparted the fort, and his old heart was unafraid.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor

The old Radical ghosts go by, more real than the living men, to assault I know not what ramparted city in hell.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

Had not nature ramparted up the tongue with teeth and the lips with hair as reins and bridles against the tongue's loose use.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald