Associations to the word «Terreplein»
Wiktionary
TERREPLEIN, noun. (military) A level space, often at the top of a rampart, and behind a parapet, on which artillery can be mounted.
TERREPLEIN, noun. (civil engineering) An embankment of earth with a broad level top, sometimes excavated to form a continuation of an elevated canal across a valley.
Dictionary definition
TERREPLEIN, noun. Level space where heavy guns can be mounted behind the parapet at the top of a rampart.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.