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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Breastwork \Breast"work`\ (br[e^]st"w[^u]rk`), n.
     1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily
        thrown up, of earth or other material.
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     2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  breastwork
       n : fortification consisting of a low wall [syn: {parapet}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "breastwork":
     abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria,
     bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement,
     barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion,
     battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater,
     brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise,
     circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain,
     dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork,
     embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence,
     fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam,
     groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir,
     levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon,
     milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet,
     portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt,
     roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall,
     shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum,
     wall, weir, wicket dam, work
  
  

















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