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"Defensive stronghold"2 answers
fort4 lettersredoubt7 letters
Filled answer is this word (REDOUBT).
Definitions
an entrenched stronghold or refuge
Word origin
From French redoute, from Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus (“refuge”), from Latin redūcō (“to withdraw”), with spelling influenced by doubt.
Used in a sentence
“By the time that our troops had taken a little refreshment, a quantity of intrenching tools were brought a-shore, and the regiments were employed in redoubting our ground, and landing some cannon and ammunition.”
“I have been employed from the day of action to that of the capitulation, in redoubting our Camp beyond insult”
“The Commanding Royal Engineer in Canada again brought forward the earlier plan for redoubting the Quebec towers.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Defensive stronghold”7 letters
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