See also:

• CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or house)

CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house)  , in fortification, a See also:

• WORK

work constructed in the ditch of a' fort . Its 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 (musketry, See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine-guns, See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case shot, &c.) sweeps the bottom of the ditch and prevents an enemy from establishing himself in it . The See also:

• TERM

term is used in a military sense as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as in the See also:

• LATE

late 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . In various bastioned systems of fortification a See also:

• CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or house)

caponier served merely as a covered means of See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to outworks, the See also:

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

bastion trace providing for the See also:

• DEFENCE
• DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

defence of the ditch by fire from the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main 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 .