Noun:

কাউন্টার্স্কার্প,

counterscarps's Usage Examples:

The roughly rectangular fort is notable for its early use of counterscarps in place of caponiers, which had been more popular until then.

In 1909 the caponiers were replaced by counterscarps.

sheltered green moat and its underground galleries, staircases, scarps and counterscarps, esplanade and fresh greenery nearby.

The north side is most complete, with an inner rampart 9 ft high and counterscarps 12 and 14 ft high.

pentagonal fort is surrounded by a ditch defended by caponiers and counterscarps.

outer wall and ditch on opposite corners, as well as 7-metre (23 ft) counterscarps.

the inner area, with a steep slope to the south-east and ditches and counterscarps elsewhere.

organisation of non-explosive obstacles (anti-tank ditches, scarps, counterscarps, stakes, etc.

The trapezoidal fort is surrounded by a ditch defended by counterscarps.

The pentagonal fort is surrounded by a ditch defended by counterscarps.

1892 and 1910 with a protected magazine, replacement of caponiers with counterscarps, and preparations for a Mougin turret with two 155mm guns.

replacement of the caponiers guarding the ditch with more effective counterscarps, while a second reinforced barracks was added, along with a casemate.

modernization suppressed the casemates and replaced caponiers with counterscarps.

caponiers defending the protective ditch in lieu of the more modern counterscarps of Uxegney.

curvettes and fausse brayes and scarps and cordons and banquettes and counterscarps.

protected sally ports giving on to the ditch and galleries within the counterscarps looking back at the fort.

capable of useful defence in case of a siege, having neither ditches nor counterscarps nor covered way, and being dominated by heights behind which there is.

and rampart to the most steeply contoured flanks, with some secondary counterscarps to the more accessible sides.