Breastwork

Quick meaning: Breastwork is a noun meaning A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.

Meaning

A fortification consisting of a breast-high bulwark; a parapet.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.
2. A parapet.
3. (slang) Breast augmentation.

Example Sentences

A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks.

A swarthy boy opened a book and propped it nimbly under the breastwork of his satchel. He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text: […]

Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire.

The Independencia is a two-turreted, breastwork ship of 9,000 tons displacement. […] The central breastwork is 130 feet in length at the top of the belt, and extends to the upper deck, 11 feet above the water-line. This breastwork incloses the boiler and engine hatches, the scuttles to magazines and shell-rooms, the principal openings for ventilation, and the two turrets.

Word Forms

• breastworks
• breast-work

Synonyms for breastwork

Depending on context, synonyms include parapet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parapet, battlement, surtout, berm, bulward, bulwark.

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