Thesaurus: crownwork
A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
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- n. A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
- n. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- n. a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from which longer flank walls run back towards the main fortress.
- A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with their outworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected by wings with the main work or the river bank.
- A work consisting of two or more bastioned fronts, with theiroutworks, covering an enceinte, a bridgehead, etc., and connected bywings with the main work or the river bank.
- n (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth