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Ravelin
Ravelin Rave"lin, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino, rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall.] (Fort.) A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
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Half-moon Half"-moon`, n. 1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated. 2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton. 3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin. 4. (Zo["o]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.

Meaning of ravelin from wikipedia

- A ravelin is a triangular fortification or detached outwork, located in front of the innerworks of a fortress (the curtain walls and bastions). Originally...
- Ravelin Ridge is a ridge which extends north–south and rises to 1400 m (Jerez Peak) in northern Clarence Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica...
- bus wrap and a CD Project called Dance 'til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin'. April 12, 2011: Appeared on CBS on The Talk. January 11, 2012: Grascals...
- Ravelin (or "Raveleijn" in Dutch) is a theatre at the Efteling amu****t park in the southern Netherlands. It was designed by Sander de Bruijn at a total...
- the city. It consisted of four ravelins and three counter guard interconnected by long, low earthworks. On Fyn's Ravelin, one of the eponymous forges has...
- mediated by the presence of the ravelin and the subsequent bridge over the moat. Until the 18th century, the ravelin was part of a larger defense system...
- 1687. Grunenburgh's proposal consisted of a fort with four bastions and a ravelin, surrounded by a ditch, covertway and faussebraye. Other proposals were...
- mid-fifteenth century in Italy. Some types, especially when combined with ravelins and other outworks, resembled the related star fort of the same era. The...
- names: authors list (link) "Vera Sola on Channeling Experience into Sound". Ravelin Magazine. March 15, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2018. "Le Guess Who? Festival...
- traces remain today, including the Porta del Soccorso. Remains of two later ravelins can be seen in correspondence of the point in which the castle was joined...