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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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