List of synonyms from "breakneck" to synonyms from "breech"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms breathless adoration, breakout, breathe easy, breast, breastwork, breaks and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
Definition of the day : « breastwork »
- As in rampart : noun fortification, stronghold
- As in bastion : noun support; fortified place
- As in fortification : noun reinforced position
- He was behind a boulder, not too dissimilar to Calhoun's breastwork.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- The breastwork was about five feet high, and was absolutely unclimbable.
- Extract from : « Saint Bartholomew's Eve » by G. A. Henty
- All the miners rushed to the breastwork save one, and that was Seth.
- Extract from : « Picked up at Sea » by J.C. Hutcheson
- None of them, however, showed any signs of returning to the breastwork.
- Extract from : « The Desert Home » by Mayne Reid
- The builders of that breastwork were before my eyes, and apparently just resting from their labours.
- Extract from : « The Desert Home » by Mayne Reid
- He drew in his rein, and stopped his steed at one end of the breastwork.
- Extract from : « A Lieutenant at Eighteen » by Oliver Optic
- Then we pushed into the mass of boughs and drove the French back into their breastwork.
- Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
- How they were to take the breastwork in this way, we could not see.
- Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
- Entrance is gained to the turrets themselves from inside this breastwork.
- Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
- The Dominie, who had seen the occurrence, rushed back to the breastwork.
- Extract from : « With Axe and Rifle » by W.H.G. Kingston