vauntmure
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French avant-mur. See vanguard and mure.
Noun edit
vauntmure (plural vauntmures)
- A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- another Engine , named the Warwolf , pierced with one stone , and cut as even as a thread two vauntmures, as he did before at the siege of Brehin
References edit
- “vauntmure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.