In the course of his harangue he happened to mention the word epaulement, upon which the testy gentleman asked the meaning, of that term. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
On either side, from behind a sandbag epaulement, a. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
For the second has landed just over and behind the epaulement. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in the Rue. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The guns had breached a new epaulement on Thornhill's Kop -- to the left of Surprise Hill and a few hundred yards nearer -- and perhaps knocked over a Boer or two, -- perhaps not. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
All these preparations were made with the understood purpose of driving the enemy from his positions in front of New Bridge; and they appear to have been about completed, for on the night of the twenty-sixth "an epaulement for putting our guns in position" to effect this object was thrown up. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
I know, for putting a stop to his loquacity, is to lay hold of some incongruity he has uttered, and demand an explanation; or ask the meaning of some difficult term that he knows by name; this method will effectually put him to silence, if not to flight, as it happened when I inquired about an epaulement. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
epaulements for guns may be constructed at the rate of six men to one epaulement in four moves. From Wordnik.com. [Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.] Reference
Here he made a full stop, and the old gentleman repeated the question, "But pray what is an epaulement?". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
In the angle at the left of this epaulement, there was visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in the Rue Saint-Denis. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
At the extremity of this beach is a battery of two or three guns; on the beach of the landing-place, is an epaulement, with embrasures which commands it. From Wordnik.com. [Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English] Reference
A road with an epaulement to protect it must first be made to the spot; and as the way was over a tract of deep mud covered with water-weeds and moss, the labor was prodigious. From Wordnik.com. [Montcalm and Wolfe] Reference
He was then received with a close fire of musketry; hand grenades and fragments of epaulement were thrown over on the heads of his men, demoralizing and completely repulsing him. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the War of Secession] Reference
To this interrogation the officer made no immediate reply, but rang the bell, and called for the bill, which being brought, he threw down his proportion of the reckoning, and, telling the company he would show them an epaulement when his majesty should think fit to entrust him with the command of our army abroad, strutted away with great dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
At the two extremities of the port, in order that their fires should converge upon the great axis of the ellipse formed by the basin, in the first place, two batteries had been raised, evidently destined to receive flank pieces, for D'Artagnan saw the workmen finishing the platform and making ready the demi-circumference in wood upon which the wheels of the pieces might turn to embrace every direction over the epaulement. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference
“I’ll tell you what an epaulement is,” replied he, “I never saw an epaulement but once, and that was at the siege of Namur. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
A wall of stone and earth twenty feet thick, made an epaulement to protect what was left of the formidable Circular Battery, -- all but three of whose sixteen guns had been dismounted, -- stopped the throat of the Dauphin's. From Wordnik.com. [A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II] Reference
“But pray what is an epaulement?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
Vandemont, “it may be taken by an epaulement.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
"I'll tell you what an epaulement is," replied he, "I never saw an epaulement but once, and that was at the siege of Namur. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
Vandemont, "it may be taken by an epaulement.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
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