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Defilade   Listen
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Defilade  v. t.  (past & past part. defiladed; pres. part. defilading)  (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.





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... planting a battery on a knob about one hundred and fifty feet above the river, and twenty-five hundred yards south of Fort Sanders. This position commanded Fort Sanders, so that it now became necessary to defilade the fort. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various


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