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• BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

BASTION (through the Fr. from See also:

• LATE

late See also:

• LAT

Lat. bastire, to build)  , a See also:

• WORK

work forming See also:

• PART

part of a See also:

• LINE

line of fortifications . The See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general trace of a See also:

• BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

bastion is similar to an irregular pentagon formed by a triangle and a narrow rectangle, the See also:

• BASE

base of the triangle coinciding with the See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the rectangle . The two sides of the triangle See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form the " faces " of the bastion, which join at the " salient " See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle, the See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short sides of the rectangle form the "flanks." Bastions were arranged so that the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire from the flanks of each protected not only the front of the See also:

• CURTAIN

curtain but also the faces of the adjacent bastions . A " See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower bastion " is a See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case-mated tower built in bastion form; a " demi-bastion " is a work formed by See also:

• HALF

half a bastion (bisected through the salient angle) and by a See also:

• PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet along the line of bisection; a " See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat bastion " is a bastion built on a curtain and having a very obtuse salient angle .