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hornworks

hornworks is the plural of hornwork.

Meaning of hornwork

Noun

hornwork (plural hornworks)

  1. A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
    • I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country...1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Questions about hornworks

What is hornworks the plural of?
Hornworks is the plural of hornwork.

Words near hornworks in the dictionary

  1. Hornung
  2. hornussen
  3. hornweed
  4. hornweeds
  5. hornwork
  6. hornworks
  7. hornworm
  8. hornworms
  9. hornwort
  10. hornworts
  11. hornwrack

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