Bastion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a tower at the corner of a fortification
• a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions.
• a natural rock formation resembling a man-made bastion.
• an institution, place, or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities
• A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
• a group that defends a principle
• a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
• projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
• projecting part of a fortification
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a fortified place

Words related to BASTION

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Words that contain BASTION

bastions10 bastioned12 demibastion16 demibastions17

How to use BASTION in a sentence

• The guns on the bastion now thundered forth incessantly.
• The same evening, also, the exertions of the right column were rewarded by the capture of the Burn bastion, with little loss on our side.
• The north-western bastion was overlooked by the Jesuit Church, and the south-eastern by the Dutch Octagon.
• A look-out in a bastion on the ruined town wall promptly fired at him.
• It is most probable that the transition from the tower to the bastion was a very gradual one, and that the change was perfected in several countries at about the same time.
• In plan, Fort Moultrie was square, with a bastion at each angle.
• This means that the Allies can move through Bulgaria upon Turkish Thrace, the sole land bastion protecting Constantinople.
• A single door separated us from the lane which led to the Burn bastion.
• On the following day they charged again, and were again repulsed by the brave Viennese, the ruined bastion becoming a very gulf of death.
• They had reached the foot of the narrow flight of steps leading up into the bastion.
• Over the bastion as they emerged on the other side they beheld the English flag floating.
• Some of the towers are further strengthened by a semicircular bastion, projecting from the side most liable to attack.
• The wood and twigs the Swedes had piled against the defensive works before the bastion, had been set on fire.
• Cloud, he crept up to the bastion and found it and the ramparts adjoining without a single sentinel.
• We ascended to the sort of bastion which its summit forms, whence the view was charming.
• They give the number of guns on each bastion, and the number of rounds to each gun, the number of cartridges, and the amount of powder in store.
• Sam and Cleary found a good lookout on a dismantled bastion, and saw the whole parade.
• Though he should build the bastion of good deeds mountain high, it could never figure as a bastion to her unless she might come to know what it was designed to defend.
• They bravely attacked the bastion Saint-Pouair, which the English called Paris, and which was about eight hundred yards from the walls.
• They had not informed her how, at that very moment, the French were attacking the Saint-Loup bastion and suffering great hurt.
• In order to reach the threatened bastion he had some distance to go down his lines and along the border of the forest.
• On August 7 a joint attack was made on the land side of Senglea and on the bastion of Castile.
• Hold yourself as bolt upright as on the day of the bastion of St.
• They arrived thus, screened by the lining of the trench, till they came within a hundred paces of the bastion.
• The importance of Cologne, as the main bastion of the impregnable Hindenburg Line, cannot be over-rated.
• The Tartar khan, from the top of a bastion, watched the spectacle, and perceiving the negligence of his enemies, prepared for a surprise and for vengeance.
• At each corner was a bastion and over each gate a blockhouse.

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