 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
redoubt
noun: a forbidding stronghold [syn: {sconce}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Redoubt \Re*doubt"\, verb (used with an object) [F. redouter, formerly also spelt
redoubter; fr. L. pref. re- re- + dubitare to doubt, in LL.,
to fear. See {Doubt}.]
To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Redoubt \Re*doubt"\ (r?*dout"), noun [F. redoute, fem., It.
ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus
drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back;
cf. F. r['e]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and
cf. {Reduct}, {R['e]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.)
(a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or
outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a
temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used
esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and
positions in hostile territory.
(b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another
outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written
also {redout}.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "redoubt":
abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette,
barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan,
bastion, battlement, breastwork, bulwark, casemate,
cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, citadel, contravallation,
counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork,
enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fastness, fence,
fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, fortress, glacis, loophole,
lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade,
parados, parapet, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin,
redan, sally port, scarp, sconce, stockade, stronghold, tenaille,
vallation, vallum, work
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