Parapet

3 definitions found

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

  Parapet \Par"a*pet\, n. [F., fr. It. parapetto, fr. parare to
     ward off, guard (L. parare to prepare, provide) + petto the
     breast, L. pectus. See {Parry}, and {Pectoral}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the
        edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for
        covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See
        Illust. of {Casemate}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parapet
       n 1: a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony
       2: fortification consisting of a low wall [syn: {breastwork}]

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

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "parapet":
     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,
     breastwork, 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, portcullis, postern gate, rampart,
     ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port,
     scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall,
     tackling, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam,
     work