CONTRAVALLATION

Definition: CONTRAVALLATION

CONTRAVALLATION

Noun

1. A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Contravallation \Con`tra*val*la"tion\, noun. [Prefix contra- vallation: compare to the French expression contrevallation. Compare to Countervallation.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: CONTRAVALLATION

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Defense	Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: CONTRAVALLATION

Language		Translations for "CONTRAVALLATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Vietnamese		chiến h� o bao vây. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "CONTRAVALLATION"

Words rhyming with "CONTRAVALLATION" (pronounced 'Con`tra*val*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Anagrams: CONTRAVALLATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-l-n-n-o-o-r-t-t-v"
	-4 letters: avocational, lactational.
	-5 letters: allocation, locational, natatorial, notational, rotational, tractional, vacillator, vocational.
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CONTRAVALLATION

Definition: CONTRAVALLATION