rampart - Definition | Dictionary definition of rampart

Definition of rampart

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

"they stormed the ramparts of the city"

Examples:: 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; 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

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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; sconce
a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate; fraise
sloping or horizontal rampart of pointed stakes; merlon
a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement

Type of:: embankment
a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection