"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Around the remains of this mound, researchers have discovered burial mounds, a large plaza, a wooden defensive palisade and several other Mississippian structures.
- They also had a village protected by a defensive palisade.
- If the village was large enough it could contain a wooden longhouse and even defensive palisades.
- The circle of huts was enclosed both inside and out by a strong defensive palisade.
- The cross-peninsula defensive palisade completed in 1634 was an integral part of the creation of Middle Plantation, though its exact route is long gone.
- A defensive palisade with bastions surrounded the 40-hectare (99-acre) town.
- The circular village, surrounded by defensive palisades, was occupied for about 20 years, with a total population of about 250.
- The outer wall of the building itself served as the defensive palisade.
- The site was surrounded by a low embankment with regular rises thought to have once been a wooden defensive palisade with bastions.
- And, straight ahead, the invaders' defensive palisade, wherein the torches still burned.
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