, in Fortification, a narrow line or passage through which troops can pass only in file, making a small front, so that the enemy may easily stop their march, and charge them with the more advantage, as the front and rear cannot come to the relief of one another.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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