Bastion

Bastion - A small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall; solid masonry projection; structural rather than inhabitable.

Bastion - A solid masonry projection.
Batt - A precut section of insulation designed to fit between studs.
Batten Board - A small strip of wood used, for example, to cover the joints between vertical siding.

bastion In military architecture, an angular and pointed projection, often diamond-shaped and usually located at a corner, that enabled gunners to defend the ramparts and curtains of a fortification.

bastion (4) -- a projecting part of a fortification, consisting of earthwork faced with stone (Oxford Dict.) Sample Image (Lesson 21) ...

bastion: a tower-like structure projecting from the corners or from the length of an outer wall, as used in fortified buildings.
battered: leaning inward.

Bastion
The general term for a defensive structure that projects from the main line of defense.

Bastion
- fortified projections usually in the form of two flank walls which then turn to finish in a salient angle, usually built at the corners of fortifications, which allows the defenders a clear view of the ground below the curtains, ...

BASTION: A solid masonry projection.
BATTLEMENTS: The notched top of a defensive wall.
CASTELLAN: The officer in charge of a castle.

Bastion
tower, turret or other construction that projects out from a wall length or commonly found projecting from the corner junction of two walls, that allows defenders to both see and fire upon the ground in front of the walls
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Bastion: A work projecting from the curtain wall of a fortification which commanded the foreground and the outworks. Designed to provide flanking fire to adjacent curtains and bastion.

bastion a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha.

Cavalier - raised structure containing a batteru, usually sited above the centre of a bastion. Raising the battery gives a better trajectory.
Cesspit - the opening in a wall in which the waste from one or more garderobes was collected.

bastionThe term Bastion comes from military architecture, meaning the projecting part of a fortification (from the Italian word 'bastire', build). In gardens it means a projecting point (usually octagonal or circular) in a walled garden.

the inducement for the besieger to attack the walls, and improvements in methods of siegecraft ultimately compelled the defender to develop the enceinte from its medieval form of a ring wall with flanking towers to the 17th century form of bastions, ...

The building consists of a huge enclosure (approximately 220 by l00 m) formed by three huge towers (two semicircular and one polygonal) linked by a tall crenellated wall strengthened by interval towers or bastions.

A three-centred and depressed arch, or one with a flat centre; also called anse de panier (French, lit. basket handle).BastionOne of a series of defensive semicircular or polygonal projections from the main wall of a fortress or city.

Curtain wall - In medieval architecture, the outer wall of a castle, surrounding it and usually punctured by towers or bastion.
Cusp - Projecting points formed at the meeting of the foils in Gothic Tracery, etc.

See also: Ground, Tower, Architecture, House, Vault