glacis in English

noun
1
a gently sloping bank, in particular one that slopes down from a fort, exposing attackers to the defenders' missiles.
Built in the glacis style, there is no berm but a continuous 11 m. slope from the ditch bottom to the bank top.

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1. Advanced battery and glacis Fair Routine maintenance.

2. Image 1 The glacis surrounding Murney Tower is clearly visible in this aerial photograph.

3. A glacis, a covered road and half-moons prolonged the fortifications on the landward side.

4. The glacis south of the branch ditches illustrates the design and defensive style of the fortifications, 1839.

5. Back to Chapter 2 > Element 06 – Murney Tower, Kingston The glacis surrounding Murney Tower is learly visible in this aerial photograph.

6. The vehicle had a welded hull (making it the first British armoured car with an all-welded construction) with a sloped glacis plate.

7. A massive wall is attributed to the Middle Bronze III (MB IIC) stage, preserved at a height of 7.3 metres (24 ft) and width up to 5.5 metres (18 ft), with an extensive glacis (with a supporting wall).

8. Fortifications sank into the ground, protected by enormously thick walls, deep Counterscarps and a sloping bank or glacis that would, hopefully, cause cannon shots to ricochet over the defences rather than penetrate

9. Lithological substrate: foothill glacis resulting from the successive intertwining of alluvial fans of the Quaternary Era, which become lower and younger to the east, in the order they were deposited by the rivers that cut across the Carpathians and Sub-Carpathians.

10. The Turks, as Caprara had rightly observed, possessed very little heavy artillery; what they had could kill people and damage buildings inside the city but made little impact on the massive walls, bastions, ravelins, glacis, caponières, palisades, Counterscarps, and the other paraphernalia of sixteenth-century fortifications that ringed Vienna.

11. Other articles where Scarp is discussed: military technology: The sunken profile: As a practical matter the scarp, or main fortress wall, now protected from artillery fire by the glacis, was faced with brick or stone for ease of maintenance; the facing wall on the forward side of the ditch, called the Counterscarp, was similarly faced