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1. (n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

2. (n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.

3. (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

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advanced work balistraria bank banquette barbed-wire entanglement barbican barricade barrier bartizan bastion battlement breastwork bulwark casemate cheval-de-frise circumvallation contravallation counterscarp curtain demibastion dike drawbridge earthwork enclosure entanglement escarp escarpment fence fieldwork fortalice fortification glacis loophole lunette machicolation mantelet merlon mound outwork palisade parados parapet portcullis postern gate rampart ravelin redan redoubt sally port scarp sconce stockade tenaille vallation vallum work
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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