, in Fortification, a kind of wooden parapet, consisting of upright timbers supporting others laid across the tops of them, 6 feet high, and fortified with faseines &c. They are used to cover the workmen in approaches, galleries, and mines. And they differ from blinds only in this, that the former serve to cover the men before, and the latter over head.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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