"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Inside this were steep defensive earthworks, crowned with palisades.
- The area is still delimited by the ancient defensive earthwork, which once must have stretched further south to the hill fort at Borgberget.
- They set up dummy Quaker Guns along the defensive earthworks.
- The entire village was surrounded by a series of palisade walls and defensive earthworks.
- This was because earth from these defensive earthworks, or terraggi, was thrown up to form the city's first fortress.
- It has also been suggested that the ditch between the hill and the allotments was dug at this time as a defensive earthworks.
- The defensive earthworks of the castle now form part of landscaped gardens.
- A grass bank and a pond are all that remain of the defensive earthworks and moat.
- The defensive earthworks turned out to be more than a single wall.
- As late as 1829 the village was protected by defensive earthworks.
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