RAVELIN

Definition: RAVELIN

RAVELIN

Noun

1. A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RAVELIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Ravelin (The or demi-lune, in fortification. A work with two faces, forming a salient angle, placed beyond the main ditch, opposite the curtain (q.v.), and separated from the covered way (q.v.) by a ditch which runs into the main ditch. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defense	Breastwork, banquette, curtain, mantlet, bastion, redan, ravelin; vauntmure; advance work, horn work, outwork; barbacan, barbican; redoubt; fort-elage, fort-alice; lines.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: RAVELIN

English words defined with "RAVELIN": Counterguard, Covered way ♦ Demilune ♦ Exterior side ♦ Glacis ♦ Tenaille. (references)

Non-English Usage: "RAVELIN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (ravelin), Swedish (ravelin).

Domain	Title
Books	Alekseevskii ravelin : kniga o padenii i velichii cheloveka (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "RAVELIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ravelin. (various references)

Bulgarian		равелин. (various references)

Greek		γωνιώδεσ οχύρωμα (redan). (various references)

Hungarian		háromszögû kiugró sánc (demilune). (various references)

Pig Latin		avelinray.(various references)

Portuguese		revelim. (various references)

Russian		равелин (demilune, half). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		polumesečasto utvrđenje. (various references)

Spanish		revellín. (various references)

Swedish		ravelin. (various references)

Ukranian		равелін (demilune). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RAVELIN": raveling, ravelings, ravelins. (additional references)
	Words containing "RAVELIN": graveling, traveling, unraveling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-v"
	-1 letter: alevin, aliner, alvine, larine, linear, nailer, naiver, ravine, renail, vainer, valine, veinal, venial, vernal, vineal.
	-2 letters: aiver, alien, aline, alive, anile, anvil, ariel, elain, ervil, invar, laver, learn, levin, liane, liner, liven, liver, livre, naevi, naive, navel, nival, ravel, raven, ravin, renal, rival, riven, velar, venal, viler, vinal, viral.
	-3 letters: airn, anil, aril, aver, earl, earn, elan, evil, ilea, lain, lair, lane, lari, lave, lean, lear, leva, liar, lien, lier, line, lira, lire, live, nail, nave, near, nevi, rail, rain, rale, rani, rave, real, rein, rial, riel, rile, rive, vail, vain, vair, vale, vane, veal, veil, vein, vela, vena, vera, vial, vier, vile, vina, vine, virl.
	-4 letters: ail, ain, air, ale, ane, ani, are, ave, ear, era, ern, ire, lar, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, lin, nae, nil, ran, rei, rev, ria, rin, van, var, via, vie.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, al, an, ar, el, en, er, in, la, li, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-r-v"
	+1 letter: interval, overlain, raveling, ravelins, valerian.
	+2 letters: avirulent, clavering, graveling, intervale, intervals, laveering, liveryman, marveling, ravelings, ravelling, revaluing, revealing, slavering, traveling, trivalent, universal, unrivaled, valerians, vernalize, versional.
	+3 letters: adenoviral, cantilever, galvanizer, gravelling, heavenlier, interleave, intervales, invariable, irrelevant, leveraging, marvelling, overlading, overlaying, palavering, prevailing, ravellings, reavailing, revelation, starveling, travelling, universals, unraveling, unrivalled, velarizing, ventilator, vernalized, vernalizes, vulcanizer, waveringly.
	+4 letters: acriflavine, alternative, antislavery, cantilevers, cavaliering, countervail, curvilinear, deliverance, deliveryman, enteroviral, everlasting, galvanizers, interleaved, interleaves, intervalley, intervallic, invariables, inventorial, involucrate, irrelevance, irrelevancy, lavendering, narratively, nonrelative, normatively, overcalling, overexplain, overhauling, overinflate, overlapping, overleaping, overloading, overplaying, oversalting, overtalking, overvaluing, previsional, quaveringly, relevancies, revaluating, revaluation, revealingly, revelations, reverential, reversional, starvelings, subinterval, surveillant, translative, universally, unravelling, vainglories, ventilators, ventilatory, ventricular, verbalizing, vernalizing, voluntaries, vulcanizers, vulneraries.
	+5 letters: acriflavines, alternatives, cantilevered, clairvoyance, conversional, countervails, curveballing, deliverances, derivational, dorsiventral, everlastings, evolutionary, flavoprotein, infiltrative, interfluvial, interleaving, interpluvial, intervalleys, intervillage, intervocalic, inveterately, invulnerable, invulnerably, irrelevances, irrelevantly, livetrapping, malversation, nonrelatives, nonuniversal, overanalysis, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, overexplains, overhandling, overinflated, overinflates, overlaboring, overlearning, overpedaling, overplanning, overplanting, overreliance, providential, quadrivalent, reevaluating, reevaluation, relativizing, revalidating, revalidation, revalorizing, revaluations, revictualing, revitalising, revitalizing, ruminatively, subintervals, surveillance, surveillants, transitively, ultraviolent, undervaluing, unforgivable, universalism, universalist, universality, universalize, unreviewable, unverbalized, unverifiable, unwaveringly, valetudinary, variableness, velarization, venerability, ventromedial, verticalness, vespertilian.
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