Definition of Breastwork. Meaning of Breastwork. Synonyms of Breastwork

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Definition of Breastwork

Breastwork
Breastwork Breast"work` (br[e^]st"w[^u]rk`), n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. 2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

Meaning of Breastwork from wikipedia

- up breastwork in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breastwork may mean: Breastwork (fortification), a temporary military fortification Breastwork monitor...
- A breastwork is a temporary fortification, often an earthwork thrown up to breast or shoulder height to provide protection to defenders firing over it...
- A breastwork monitor was a modification of the monitor, a warship which was first built in the United States in 1861, designed by John Ericsson and distinguished...
- Breastworks Branch is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. A variant name was "Breastwork Branch". Breastworks Branch was so named on account of a breastwork...
- and served as coastal ships. The term also encomp****ed more flexible breastwork monitors, and was sometimes used as a generic term for any turreted ship...
- Monitor Breastwork monitor, a type of turret ship with a raised superstructure and higher freeboard than the first monitors List of breastwork monitors...
- The Cerberus-class breastwork monitor was a pair of breastwork monitors built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. Also referred to as "ironclads" and "turret...
- HMS Abyssinia was a breastwork monitor ordered, designed, and built by J & W Dudgeon specifically for the Bombay Marine for the defense of the harbor at...
- The breastwork monitor was developed during the 1860s by Sir Edward Reed, Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy, as an improvement of the basic monitor design...
- HMS Glatton was a breastwork monitor which served in the Victorian Royal Navy. She was designed by Sir Edward Reed to a specific formula determined by...