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parapet n. 栏杆,扶手,胸墙 栏杆,扶手,胸墙 parapet n 1: a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony 2: fortification consisting of a low wall [ synonym: { parapet}, { breastwork}] Parapet \ Par" a* pet\, n. [ F., fr. It. parapetto, fr. parare to ward off, guard ( L. parare to prepare, provide) petto the breast, L. pectus. See { Parry}, and { Pectoral}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Arch.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy' s fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of { Casemate}. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " parapet": abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed- wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear- trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval- de- frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic- fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock- fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tackling, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work
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