rampart
noun
[ ˈrampɑːt ]
• a defensive wall of a castle or walled city, having a broad top with a walkway and typically a stone parapet.
• "a castle with ramparts and a moat"
Similar:
defensive wall,
embankment,
earthwork,
parapet,
breastwork,
battlement,
stockade,
palisade,
bulwark,
bastion,
barbican,
outwork,
fortification,
vallum,
bartizan,
circumvallation,
rampart
verb
• fortify or surround with or as if with a rampart.
• "the town's streets were ramparted with tall mounds of rubble"
Origin:
late 16th century: from French rempart, from remparer ‘fortify, take possession of again’, based on Latin ante ‘before’ + parare ‘prepare’.
