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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

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

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WORK

work constructed in the ditch of a' fort . Its

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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,

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machine-guns,

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

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TERM

term is used in a military sense as

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early as in the

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LATE

late 17th

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

century . In various bastioned systems of fortification a

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

caponier served merely as a covered means of

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ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to outworks, the

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

bastion trace providing for the

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defence of the ditch by fire from the

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main

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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 .

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