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abatis (or abattis)

Outer defence work in which felled trees are stripped of their leaves and placed on the ground with the sharpened points of their branches extending towards the enemy. English use of the word is thought to have originated in 1766. It is still in use today, and is often interlaced with barbed wire.



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Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a clearing made and a circular abatis of underbrush constructed about the camp.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The besieged had drawn together a pile of black logs and branches of trees, which they had formed into a chevaux-de- frise, making a little circular abatis in front of the entrance to the cave.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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