- Cricket building - Exhibition building - Summer house - A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee;
esp., a tent raised on posts. - A single body or mass of building, contained within
simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or
garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an
angle or central feature of a large pile. - A flag, colors, ensign, or banner. - Same as Tent (Her.)
- An opening between the corbels which support a
projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a
portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the
base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general,
when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle. - The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning
or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.