Abattis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABATTIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a barrier made of felled trees or branches, also ABATIS
• A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.
• 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
• a defence made of felled trees placed lengthwise over each other with the boughs pointing outwards.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as abatis

Words related to ABATTIS

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How to use ABATTIS in a sentence

• The echoes had not died away when a tremendous fire of musketry was opened by the Poles hidden behind the abattis.
• Several of the riflemen had fallen shot through the head, as they fired over the top of the battery, while thirty or forty lay killed and wounded behind the abattis.
• The Zouaves, flushed with success, attempted to carry the Round Tower with a rush, and swept up to the abattis surrounding it.
• The French had now pushed forward their trenches so far that from their front sap they could absolutely touch the abattis of the Malakoff.
• Upon the signal being given, they leaped in crowds from the advanced trench, climbed over the abattis, descended the ditch and swarmed up the rugged slope in hundreds.
• The abattis had been torn to pieces by the cannonade, and the men did not wait for the ladders, but leapt into the ditch and scrambled up on the other side.
• Stronger and stronger grew abattis and breastwork, the whole becoming a formidable field over which men might charge to death.
• The Marquis looked at the formidable abattis, the rows and rows of trees, presenting their myriad of spiked ends, and hope was alive in his heart.
• As the enemy effected a breach in the abattis and streamed in, Jacob with his horse galloped down upon them at full speed.
• The village itself was loop-holed, the outlying buildings to the front made defensible, and the open space to the north-east secured by abattis and wire entanglements.
• The unfinished wall on the eastern face was raised by logs of wood, and abattis and wire entanglements were placed in front.
• He found the Spaniards checked by the great abattis, through which flashed, fierce and fast, the fire of the French.
• On Thursday and Friday the Austrians were engaged, as usual, in felling trees, forming abattis, throwing up earthworks, and in all ways strengthening their position.
• He had waited long, and worked hard, and his whole soul went out as he watched the troops cross the abattis and scale the works.
• But there were no symptoms of unusual excitement, no sign of working parties, of reinforcements for the advanced posts, of the construction of earthworks or abattis.
• Beyond, over the bare fields, the way was obstructed by felled timber, the lopped branches of which were closely interlaced, and above the abattis rose the line of breastworks.
• Supplies of ammunition were brought up and distributed, the existing defences were repaired, abattis cut and laid, and fresh earthworks thrown up.
• The landward approach was guarded by a strong rampart of felled trees, which the soldiers had formed into a breastwork and abattis which might almost be called musket-proof.
• But the raking fire from behind the abattis swept their ranks, mowed them down, and strewed the ground with dying and dead.

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