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CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or house)

CAPONIER (from the Fr. caponniere, properly a capon-cote or See also:
HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
house) , in fortification, a See also:

WORK

work constructed in the ditch of a' fort. Its See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire (musketry, See also:

machine-guns, See also:

case shot, &c.) sweeps the bottom of the ditch and prevents an enemy from establishing himself in it. The See also:

TERM

term is used in a military sense as See also:

early as in the See also:

LATE

late 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. In various bastioned systems of fortification a caponier served merely as a covered means of See also:

ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access to outworks, the See also:

BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

bastion trace providing for the See also:

defence of the ditch by fire from the See also:

main See also:

PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet.

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