"defensive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The city walls and defensive moat were built in 1473.
- The defensive moat of the castle is still visible.
- Archaeological excavations at Chang'an show that wooden bridges were built over the defensive moat and led to the gatehouses.
- He had the current edifice built complete with defensive moat as he (quite rightly) feared assassination.
- A drawbridge was historically the hinged bridge at a castle's gates providing entry across a defensive moat.
- A defensive moat may have surrounded the barmkin in the past.
- This defensive moat was to become the 'Stokes Bay Lines'.
- The area of 5-6 hectares is surrounded by a ditch, probably a defensive moat, five or six meters wide.
- The "Long Ears" dug a defensive moat on the eastern end of the island and filled it with kindling.
- Later villagers built a defensive moat following the ditches of the old enclosure.
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