Definitions for abatis

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abatis ab·a·tis

Spelling: [ab-uh-tee, -tis, uh-bat-ee, Abatis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in abatis (aabist).

Definitions for abatis

noun

1. an obstacle or barricade of trees with bent or sharpened branches directed toward an enemy.
2. a barbed wire entanglement used as an obstacle or barricade against an enemy.

Origin of abatis

1760-70; French; Old French abateis Vulgar Latin *abatteticius, derivative of Old French abattre (see abate)

Examples for abatis

He got his smashed with a bullet comin' through the abatis, and's bin mournin' about 'em ever since.

The Rebels tore away their own abatis, and in less than a minute were inside the fort.

Here he fought in rifle-pits, protected by abatis and a difficult bayou.

He also carried in and made an abatis between himself and the enemy.

The further we can get through that abatis before they discover us, the fewer we'll have killed.

In front of the abatis had been planted a battery of four guns.

In a moment the axemen were upon the abatis of the enemy and hewing it down.

Fifty yards in front of the abatis the pickets were stationed.

In these cases I threw up an earth-work, and protected it with abatis.

His pioneers were to be equipped to destroy the enemy's abatis.