Bastions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASTIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• BASTION, 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a fortified place

Words related to BASTIONS

bastion9

Words that contain BASTIONS

demibastions17

How to use BASTIONS in a sentence

• The fire from the Versaillais then sensibly diminished, but that of the bastions continued its furious attack.
• All the more important towns were fortified, and entrenched camps and bastions were erected at San Martino in Mugello, and at Terra del Sole.
• There were no churches, no houses, no redoubts, no bastions, no walls, nothing but a vague and confused mass of ruin.
• Paul III determined to secure a position of such vital importance to the Vatican by bastions.
• The remote little village of Up-Ottery is away to the left on the infant stream surrounded by the southern bastions of the Blackdowns.
• Mines were dug, and, as by volcanic explosions, bastions, with men and guns, were blown high into the air.
• It is not known who first changed the ancient towers into bastions.
• A continuous line of bastions is preferable to any other arrangement, when there is plenty of time for their construction.
• To the left, a citadel of four bastions, connected by a curtain, was all but a ruin.
• No counter-attack could be made on that flank, and the comparatively open ground between the Kashmir and Mori bastions would assist us in protecting the assaulting columns.
• With incessant labor they undermined them, blew up the strongest bastions, and laid their plans to rush into the devoted city, from which they hoped to gain a glorious booty.
• Three chariots could be driven abreast around the summit of its walls, which were defended by fifteen hundred bastions, each of them two hundred feet in height.
• It was a rough oblong in shape, defended at each corner by a bastion mounted with ten guns, the bastions being connected by massive curtains.
• The Kent and Tyger opened fire on the southeast and northeast bastions, and these two vessels bore the brunt of a tremendous cannonade from the fort.
• Inside the harbour was another fort called Santa Cruz, well-built with 4 bastions and a moat, but provided with only a few iron guns and without a garrison.
• Seven guns on bastions 72, 73, and 74 have been dismounted by the new battery of Montretout and the bastions silenced.
• The neighbouring bastions are subjected to a tremendous fire, but do not reply.
• As far as I can make out, the Prussians aim at the bastions, and occasionally, but rarely, at some public building.
• While matters stood thus, there came, late one afternoon, a loud cry, announcing joyful tidings, from the sentinel on one of the river bastions.
• In advance of these defences are a further series of spacious bastions, immediately connected with the preceding, but of later construction.
• Likewise several bastions have been erected which were still incomplete, and the wall is being made higher in those parts where it is necessary.
• Timber was torn from the walks and used in the construction of portable bastions, which were erected outside the fort.

Similar words containing BASTION without suffix s

bastion9 bastioned12 demibastion16 demibastions17

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