Dictionary Definition
breastwork n : fortification consisting of a low
wall [syn: parapet]
User Contributed Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Breastwork may mean:
- A form of temporary fortification Breastwork (fortification).
- Surgical alteration of the breast Breast implant.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, 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, parapet, portcullis, postern gate,
rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam,
sally port, scarp,
sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work