Meanings
nounbatardeau (plural batardeaus)
plural batardeaus
- A cofferdam.
An experiment was tried during the day upon the dykes of the citadel, which, as before stated, are fed by means of a sluice opposite the Scheldt, and separated from those of the city by a batardeau.
1833, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine - governmentA 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.
Origin
- Frenchbatardeau
- Englishbatardeau
From French batardeau.
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