 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
parapet
noun
1: a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony
2: fortification consisting of a low wall [syn: {breastwork}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parapet \Par"a*pet\, noun [F., fr. It. parapetto, fr. parare to
ward off, guard (L. parare to prepare, provide) + petto the
breast, L. pectus. See {Parry}, and {Pectoral}.]
1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the
edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for
covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See
Illust. of {Casemate}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "parapet":
abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria,
bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement,
barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion,
battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater,
breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate,
cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation,
counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch,
drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp,
escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate,
glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam,
jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette,
machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound,
outwork, palisade, parados, portcullis, postern gate, rampart,
ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port,
scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall,
tackling, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam,
work
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