Definitions for epaulement

epaulement é·paule·ment

Spelling: [French ey-pohl-mahn]
IPA: /French eɪ poʊlˈmɑ̃/

Epaulement is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 420 anagrams from letters in epaulement (aeeelmnptu).

Definitions for epaulement

noun

  1. a position in which the shoulders are at right angles to the direction of the supporting leg, with one shoulder thrust forward and one back.

Origin of epaulement

1680-90; French, equivalent to épaule (see epaulet) + -ment -ment

Examples for epaulement

epaulement, e-pawl′ment, n. a side-work of a battery or earthwork to protect it from a flanking fire.

We fortified the post by an epaulement or two for cannon, high up on the hillside covering the ferry and the road up New River.

Here he made a full stop, and the old gentleman repeated the question, "But pray what is an epaulement?"

Some of the enemy, advancing from the epaulement, proceeded in pursuit, but were checked by the apparition of the Guards.

I asked Mount, who was leaning over the epaulement, waiting patiently for a mark.

On the epaulement above the outer trench something moved, probably a sentry.

For the second has landed just over and behind the epaulement.

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