glacis 的定义
plural gla·cis [gley-seez, -siz, glas-eez, -iz], /ˈgleɪ siz, -sɪz, ˈglæs iz, -ɪz/, gla·cis·es.
- a gentle slope.
- Fortification. a bank of earth in front of the counterscarp or covered way of a fort, having an easy slope toward the field or open country.
更多glacis例句
- In six days they completed the parapet, with a glacis on the opposite side.
- The opposing lines of trenches go down the slope, much as usual, with the enemy line above on a slight natural glacis.
- It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
- It is defended by a castle with ditches glacis, and by a double wall, which in some parts is triple.
- Hamos (Hems) is a good town, well inclosed with walls and ditches "en glacis," situated in a plain on the banks of a small river.