英语词汇“braye”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

braye

释义

† braye Obs.
Also 6 brey, 6–7 braie.
[a. F. braie = med.L. braca dike, embankment: of unknown origin.]
A military outwork; a mound or bank defended by palisades and watchtowers. false braye (ad. Fr. fausse braie): an advanced parapet surrounding the main rampart.
1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, i §1 To make Bulwerkes, Brayes, Walles, Diches, and al other fortificacions.1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 205 He knowith of no newe fortification..saving only a newe braye about their fort.1575Laneham Let. (1871) 2 A fayre Park on the one side, which by the Braiz is linked too the castl on the South.1577Holinshed Chron. II. 857 The king that was walking aloft on the braies of the wals.1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 122 A Brey and Cortaine without was battered by the forts.1645Symonds in United Serv. Mag. (1842) ii. 467 There is..a pallizado above the false bray.1653Urquhart Rabelais iii. Prol., Contrived platforms, barricadoed the false brayes.

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