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cunettes

cunettes is the plural of cunette.

Meaning of cunette

Noun

cunette (plural cunettes)

  1. A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
    • Ford's Ravelin.—Completed in its ditch, ſluices, cunette, aqueducts, ſcarp, and counterſcarp walls; […]1773, “Progress and State of the Works beyond the Great Ditch”, in Further Report (being the Eighth) from the Committee of Secrecy Appointed by the House of Commons, Assembled in Westminster in the...

Questions about cunettes

What is cunettes the plural of?
Cunettes is the plural of cunette.

Words near cunettes in the dictionary

  1. cuneometatarsal
  2. cuneometatarsale
  3. cuneonavicular
  4. Cuneos
  5. cunette
  6. cunettes
  7. cuneus
  8. Cung
  9. cungevoi
  10. Cungrea
  11. Cungs

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