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- Outwork - v. t. - To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.
- Outwork - n. - A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.
- Redoubt - n. - A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.
- Hornwork - n. - An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.
- Antemural - n. - An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front of the gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.
- Ponvolant - n. - A kind of light bridge, used in sieges, for surprising a post or outwork which has but a narrow moat; a flying bridge.
- Fortalice - n. - A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.
- Counterguard - n. - A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
- Tenaille - n. - An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
- Gorge - n. - The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
- Redoubt - n. - In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.
- Swallowtail - n. - An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
- Half-moon - n. - An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.