rampart

Noun
  1. An embankment built around a space for defensive purposes (synset 104058937)
    "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"
    is a type of: embankment - a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
    subtypes:
    • bailey - the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle
    • battlement, crenelation, crenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
    • earthwork - an earthen rampart
    • fraise - sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes
    • merlon - a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement
    specific instances:
    • antonine wall - a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain
    • chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china - a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
    is a part of: fortification, munition - defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
    same as: bulwark, wall

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