Abatis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABATIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a barrier made of felled trees, also ABATTIS
• a defence made of felled trees placed lengthwise over each other with the boughs pointing outwards.
• rampart of felled trees
• Alt. of Abattis
• a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy

Words related to ABATIS

abatises10 abattis9

Words that contain ABATIS

abatises10

How to use ABATIS in a sentence

• Sometimes they had been uprooted and dragged to mark the boundaries of fields, where they raised an abatis of twisted roots to the sky.
• A general levy took place, every able man crowded to the ranks, and whole forests were felled to form abatis of defence against a marching enemy.
• In front of the abatis had been planted a battery of four guns.
• In front of these, abatis were made by filling the trees and cutting their limbs in such a way that the sharp spikes projected toward the breasts of the advancing foe.
• They reached the abatis and one man leaped on the breastworks before they fell back in bloody confusion.
• The pioneers with their axes cleared the abatis and opened the way for the charging hosts.

Similar words containing ABATI without suffix s

abating10 abatises10 anabatic12 rabatine10 adiabatic14 aquabatic22 catabatic15 katabatic17 metabatic15 rabatines11 unabating12 adiabatics15 aquabatics23 nonadiabatic17 adiabatically21

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