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Webster 1913 Edition

Batardeau

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Baˊtar-deau′

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Noun.
[F.]
1.
A cofferdam.
Brande & C.
2.
(Mil.)
A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

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