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- Lunette - n. - A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
- Lunette - n. - A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
- Lunette - n. - A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
- Lunette - n. - A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
- Lunette - n. - Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
- Lunette - n. - An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
- Bastion - n. - A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.