- Bulwark
- Defensive embankment
- Defensive mound
- Surrounding fortified embankment
- That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which
secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
- A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the
parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent
fortification.
- To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or
ramparts.