Ravelins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 529 anagrams from letters in ravelins (aeilnrsv).
1580-90; Middle French, earlier revelin Italian rivellino, diminutive of riva bank, rim
For the ravelin proved a sufficient protection for the besieged.
ravelin, rav′lin, n. a detached work with two embankments raised before the counterscarp.
Of geometry he learned as much as was necessary for the construction of a ravelin or a hornwork.
But the greatest loss of the besieged was that of the counterscarp and ravelin.
On the other hand, it made the ravelin liable to capture by the gorge.
An old form of outwork somewhat similar to the ravelin, originally placed before the salients of bastions.
The reason why the ravelin had been at last conceded was revealed.
Here Nechaev—in the gloomy Alexis ravelin—was kept a prisoner for life.
Count Solms, on the other hand, came from the besieging camp into the ravelin to investigate the sudden uproar.
A tremendous onset was made upon the gate of the Cross, and the ravelin was carried at last.