Synonyms and related words :
abatis, advanced work, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bevel, bezel, breastwork, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, chute, circumvallation, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, demibastion, dike, drawbridge, earthwork, easy slope, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fleam, fortalice, fortification, gentle slope, grade, gradient, hanging gardens, helicline, hillside, inclination, incline, inclined plane, launching ramp, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pitch, portcullis, postern gate, ramp, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, shelving beach, side, slope, steep slope, stiff climb, stockade, talus, tenaille, vallation, vallum, work