parapets

protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets

A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy. n