Meanings
alternative abattised
- not comparableProvided with an abatis.First known use Mid 19ᵗʰ century.
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Their defenses at Boston Neck had been built up and greatly strengthened, and on Bunker's Hill they had built an elaborate fortress, with a thick parapet, well ditched, fraised, and abatised, of which Washington said "Twenty thousand men could not have carried it against one thousand had that work been well defended."
2011, Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, Skyhorse, →ISBN, page 109
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abatised. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/abatised
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