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breastwork

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10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted abekorrstwStarts with BEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. fortification consisting of a low wall

Word origin

From breast + work.

Used in a sentence

  • Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire.
  • A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks.
  • A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text: […]

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