catflap.org Online Dictionary Query

  Half-moon \Half"-moon`\ (-m[=oo]n`), n.
     1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears
        illuminated.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              See how in warlike muster they appear,
              In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.
                                                    --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a
        salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now
        called a ravelin.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Zo["o]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California
        ({C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate,
        blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also
        medialuna.
        [1913 Webster]

  Ravelin \Rave"lin\ (r[a^]v"l[i^]n; 277), n. [F.; cf. Sp.
     rebellin, It. revellino, rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again
     + vallum wall.] (Fort.)
     A detached work with two embankments which make a salient
     angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of
     the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
     [1913 Webster]

  Ravelin \Rave"lin\, n. [F.; cf. Sp. rebellin, It. revellino,
     rivellino; perhaps fr. L. re- again + vallum wall.] (Fort.)
     A detached work with two embankments with make a salient
     angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of
     the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.

  Half-moon \Half"-moon`\, n.
     1. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears
        illuminated.
  
     2. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
  
              See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs,
              and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.
  
     3. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a
        salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now
        called a ravelin.
  
     4. (Zo["o]l.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California
        ({C[ae]siosoma Californiense). The body is ovate,
        blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also
        medialuna.

  ravelin
     n.
     An outwork#Noun. A fortification outside a castle used to split an
  attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose
  gorge resembles a half-moon

  ravelin
     n.
     An outwork#Noun. A fortification outside a castle used to split an
  attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose
  gorge resembles a half-moon

  ravelin
     n.
     An outwork#Noun. A fortification outside a castle used to split an
  attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose
  gorge resembles a half-moon

  ravelin
     n.
     An outwork#Noun. A fortification outside a castle used to split an
  attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose
  gorge resembles a half-moon

  Ravelin /ʁavəˈlɛ̃ː/ 
  ravelin, demi-lune
  Militär, historisch: ein der Kurtine vorgelagerte, im Grundriss dreieckiges Verteidigungswerk innerhalb einer Festung, dessen Spitze zum Feind hin ausgerichtet ist

  ravelin /ɹˈavɪlˌɪn/
  Wallschild  [constr.]  [hist.]
           Note: Anbau an eine Festung
   see: ravelins
  
           Note: outwork of a fortification

  ravelin /ɹˈavɪlˌɪn/ 
  raveliini
  fortification outside a castle

  ravelin /ʁavlˈɛ̃/ 
  Ravelin

  ravelin /ʁavlˈɛ̃/ 
  rivellino

  ravelin /ʁavlˈɛ̃/ 
  revellín

  n. 三角堡;

     n. 三角堡